[pbhjpbhj]

>I've heard from a law student in China that the law is a tool to control the masses. //

How is that different to other countries? In the UK, for example, the Tory party have been enacting laws to make it difficult to legally protest.

[edgyquant]

Because in most western nations the government itself is bound by laws. There’s a huge philosophical difference between the way Chinese view law and we do.

[t0suj4]

It depends on how the lawmakers see it and how far the enforcers are willing to go.

Not everyone is willing to shoot lead into a large gathering of people the less of them the better.

If you're lucky the judges will overturn the law and keep their jobs.

[jokethrowaway]

It's not - we're mostly better than China but the crimes our governments commit against us are of the same type.

They steal our freedom and profits via taxes. Taxes in China are not even that high for european standard, but they do infringe more on their citizens liberty.

On the other side, western societies are doing more of that too, between covid, gdpr, and the incoming cyber resiliance act