Dear God.

[moonwise]

I've read through this article a few times now and I'm still appalled.

China executes bank staff for fraud

Quote:

Legal experts have proposed what they call a "kill fewer, kill carefully" policy for nonviolent crimes.

Comments

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Devil's advocate:

Actually, most of the criticism for our death penalty comes from Canada and Europe, which do have comparable developement and quality of life. So, there is some legitimacy to their complaints (and it's not like we aren't going to follow in their footsteps, anyway - we always do, it just takes us a few decades longer).

Still, for all my serious complaints about the States, articles like this remind me that there are worse places to be.

[little-licks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they sure ain't lily-white, are they? ;)

Funny enough - a friend of mine spent a year in a small city in the middle of China. When he came back (early this year), he was full of righteous piss at anyone who had anything bad to say about living in the US. Without getting into the expletives, he effectively said that they had no idea what it actually meant to live in poverty, filth, and corruption if they were being suckled by the relative luxury in America. It's not to say he became an ultra-right-winger - but it was kinda funny to see him become so passionate about how good we have it here.