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by rippercushions 1173 days ago
You will not get flogged for littering in any of those, although Singapore famously does have judicial caning for intentional vandalism. And unlike the US, you are extremely unlikely to get shot by the police.

Edit: It's applied rarely and only for egregious cases, eg breaking into a depot to spray-paint subway cars and getting caught on CCTV doing it. There are plenty of things to criticize about Singapore (for one, there's a lot less oversight on prisoners getting caned as an administrative punishment), but the way they handle vandalism isn't really at the top of my list, not least because it's remarkably effective.

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People will get up in arms over caning but throw 20 year olds in jail for 25 years.
Oh it's caning and only sometimes, well then that's absolutely fine.

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No it isn't. Absolutely not. No way. Never coming there. Damn this place. Doesn't matter what the offense has to be, it's never fine.

Do you think that each and every judgement of judicial caning was correct? That mistakes can't happen?