[tristanj]

It comes from a cursory understanding of the world outside of western countries. People watch a few videos on youtube about other countries, or visit on vacation for a week, and assume they understand the mentality of people who live there. It's hubris. Then they apply western moralities to other cultures, implicitly assuming their own western ideals are superior.

For example, pretty much everything kulahan wrote about Japan in the grandparent comment is completely made up. Good narrative, emotionally aligned, feels true, stated with complete confidence, but absolutely fictitious.

[kulahan]

How is this the third comment lying to defend Japan? This is the weirdest astroturfing I've ever seen. This isn't even something people argue over - there's a whole wiki article on how shitty the Japanese legal system is. Weebs are awful, I swear.

[tristanj]

The issues with your comments are:

1) You obviously don't understand the Japanese legal system.

2) You're very comfortable lying, and making up false claims about the Japanese legal system.

3) You don't address your lies when they are called out.

4) There are genuine issues with the Japanese legal system that you could critique, but you're unable to articulate these issues and instead resort to (2).

For example, you could critique Japan's 23 day arbitrary detention policy, but instead you focused on Japan's high conviction rate which is actually very comparable to that of other nations.

[kulahan]

It’s higher than authoritarian nations lol, it’s insanely high. It’s not close to other nations in anything other than a very strict “99 is kinda close to 93 if we ignore the context of the number. Insanely confusing hill to die on…