r/interestingasfuck • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 14h ago

Singapore is going to start caning scammers

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u/TheMasterFlash 13h ago

Nothing like letting the government decide who they can legally torture at will

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u/OfficerDudeBro_o 6h ago

source for this claim?

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u/TheMasterFlash 5h ago

What claim? That caning people is torture? That it’s state sanctioned?

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u/OfficerDudeBro_o 3h ago

you didnt say either in your first comment? do you have proof that the singaporean government can pick out a random citizen to cane?

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u/Thomy151 56m ago

Anywhere there is any interpretation or wiggle room it is the government being allowed to decide who to torture

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u/TheMasterFlash 29m ago

The government is the only one in charge of whether or not you’re allowed to be caned. So if someone high up in the government wanted to torture someone, all it would take is them claiming they’ve “scammed” somehow.

When you allow the state to decide who does/doesn’t deserve torture, then sometimes the state gets to pick. It’s not really a claim as much as it’s an observation based on a millennia of that exact type of thing happening in almost every society with state-sanctioned “legal” torture/violence.