justice city

909 said:

^^ North-Korea doens't have much crime either.

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I am glad to hear that.

909 said:

But i prefer some crime and living in freedom than in a country without much crime where the state or religious leaders tell me what to do and think.

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I have lived ther for a while and there is no such thing that state is telling you what to do and what to think. This is a media propoganda.

I believe you live in north Korea and i believe you like it too. Try asking some one from europe or US on what they think of N. Korea as a state(i dont blame them, but thats what the media promote), and you will understand what i mean between propoganda and reality.

I am not accusing korea nor defending the saudis( i like both of them ), but some things are not really as bad as they are being portrayed.

I agree with kbboy, whole of middle east has less crime rate.


BTW, anyone from japan, i heard tokyo has very less crime rate? find it hard to believe coz its such a big city!!

Repression doesn't solve ANY problems, that's a fact. Much more important is social and economical as well as political and environmental stability in a city or a country. Unequality leads to higher criminal rates - if you have a death sentence or not in that state or country.

A country which is generally very poor as North Korea or some Micronesian islands don't have a high criminal rate because there is no greed and jealousy.

Brazil, RSA or USA have high rates because on one side their gini coefficient is very bad and second they are "lands of plenty" but a big part of the pop doesn't have the chance to participate.

Another thing that I never will understand (it's only explainable by corruption) is the prohibition and repression on DRUGS. Because they are illegal they cause the following:
- mafia-like gangs for smuggling and selling
- slavary and abusing of farmers that are forced to plant what the mafia tells them for very low prices
- no chance of quality control of the drugs by the government that leads to a lot of deaths
- corruption in politics
- endangering of the pop that has nothing to do with this business (stray bullets, gang and police wars etc.)
- criminalizing of drug-users and thus endangering them to become REAL criminals
- and BILLIONS of tax money that is just non existent by one of the most florishing economy in the world

A Colombian politition once said: We don't have problems with drugs, it's in our culture. The American have a problem of drug ABUSE and that's why WE have a problem now.... How right he was!