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RE: Book Review: "Rule of Law in China," by Various Uncredited Authors
You're not wrong when you say America has some issues where justice is concerned, and having been a cop there for six years I can attest to some of some miscarriages of right and wrong where law is concerned. But I maintain that while America does have some corruption in it's justice system, I'm not sure China has any justice in its corruption system.
The difference may be one of scale, but it's huge enough to be night and day. At least America's system functions more often than not. In China the judge rarely even manages to put on a pretense of having any laws to follow, much less following them.
Yes @patriamreminisci ...
... I certainly understand that. You would know far better than I, but I am unaware of any time in China's history where they would've ever lived under a system like ours. As is true in many other countries as well ...
Which makes it all the more sobering, in my mind, that we seem to have so little appreciation of that fact. At least, that is the "big picture" in large and growing portions of our population here. Part of human nature ultimately, not being grateful for what we have. Until we don't have it any more ...
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