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Even Obama spoke out against the ruling.

The problem with private prisons is, because they are making profit from the government on a per-prisoner basis and profit from prisoners on a per-prisoner basis, there is absolutely incentive for them to maximize the number of people in prison. This is self evidently a terrible idea. It's...

If someone steals $500 to make it to their next paycheck, caning has done nothing to fix the problem and has only made it worse. If someone's done something truly bad, caning isn't enough. If you were to ask me what should be done to criminals, I would advise forced education. You leaving your...

Singaporean lashings causing permanent damage isn't exactly rare.

That's how you end up with Eastern collectivist (and often totalitarian) cultures. See Singapore. Also Singapore is an extremely totalitarian and collectivist culture. Even if we could, why would we want to copy them?