MentalEdge

Yeah, things aren’t clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.

But a lax justice system isn’t one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.

And while laws also definitely need improving, it’s happening.

The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn’t help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.

That’s a completely different conversion.

And you might want to check Japanese conviction rates before making assumptions. Their system is damn near “guilty until proven innocent”.

Now, whether such crimes actually get reported, is again, another, different conversation. There absolutely are vile predators over there, as a judge publicly commented he thought it was weird he could get arrested for banging a 14-year-old.

But the ensuing scandal is also the reason why that dude is no longer a judge, and why the national minimum finally got raised.

There isn’t one. They are repeating a technically kind-of-true funny ha-ha internet factoid.

The effective age of consent is higher, as prefectures all have local laws setting it to something sane, but people say it’s 13 because it was the old national minimum on record up until last year.

And that national law was literally from over a hundred years back, and was finally updated last year to raise the national minimum to 16. Still lower than the 18 in effect in places like Tokyo.

Not since last year, when it was raised to 16.

Even then that was the national minimum set over a hundred years ago.

In practice it’s 18 in most prefectures, and has been for years, due to local law setting it to something sane.

Good.

Shitty cyclists suck. I ride my own bike every day, and I can’t get over how often I see someone riding among pedestrians, (often along a road clear of cars, or worse yet, along an actual bike lane right there).

I must have shouted “the bike lane is literally right here” as I go past people like this over a hundred times in my life.

It’s obvius to me that hitting someone with my bike would be horrible, yet I see people riding them all the time like it’s the same as lightly jogging.

That’s usually how it’s discussed.

From a certain perspective, it doesn’t matter whether a given soldier dies or is injured. Either way, it means a combatant was removed from the conflict.

As such, deaths and injuries are grouped together when discussing the “losses” of war.

What the fuck? Who deliberated on this?

Unit commanders are given instructions to ensure soldiers consume Russian state media daily to maintain their “psychological condition”.

Makes sense. Wouldn’t want the troops thinking things through on their own. They might come to conclusions that actually approach the truth.

Don’t be obtuse.

There are other concerns with developing space tech besides ones concerning competence and expertise.

Even that is worth questioning, as Russia is suffering historical levels of brain-drain for obvious reasons.

As an infrastructure project its conceptually pretty sick. A nuclear power plant would be fairly ideal for the first long-term human presence on the moon.

The problem is that it’s Russia and China doing it.

It’s to serve as a power source for a potential moon base, apparently.

The universe doesn’t care, so we have to. If you want humanity to be something that’s worthy of existing, then it’s not optional.

Fine, you don’t have the stamina to care about this because you can’t personally do something about it. That’s ok.

But care about something. Care about not running the water while brushing your teeth for no reason, or about repairing some things you’d normally throw away. Care about being good company for the people you know. Care about doing things better when you spot an opportunity for improvement. Care about not making the lives of your colleagues harder if you can help it. Care about answering the questions of a child with mindfulness and consideration.

You don’t have to care about everything. Everything matters, everything needs improving, but no-one can fix everything so that it’s perfect.

But improve something. Take pleasure in doing it. Not everyone will do the same, but you’ll be one more among millions making the world a little better, instead of worse.

Not to mention that if you’re running a country, someone is going insult you.

Making everyone happy is an impossible ask, so if you can’t settle for the majority being content, and probably not even being that vocal about it, then you should not be governing.

Uuuh, pretty sure you’re still allowed to read your work email off-hours, or get some shit done if you feel like it.

This just means you can’t be fired for, you know, having a life.

Oh I don’t think nestle would give Putin shit. I just want Putin to try, and by doing so burn that particular bridge. Nestle isn’t gonna stop doing business in Russia any other way.

For real.

Putin, please do nestle next.

I don’t know about you guys but even as a straigh dude, especially glorious beards can also have me staring and acting unwise…

I say ban all beards.

Obviously. How else would they protect them from their uncontrollable male urges?

/S in case anyone gets confused…

Technically yes.

But I wasn’t commenting on whether this given situation, or whether modern copyright laws, are reasonable.

In this case the extradition is extending the reach of shitty laws, but that is not an arguement against extraditions being a thing.

They are a good thing. They allow for laws to reach across borders, because otherwise a state of anarchy would exist between countries, where all crime would be fair game, as long as you only victimized foreigners. That would be extremely fucked.

It’s why contries like Russia and India have online scam industries, because there exists no international agreement that would enforce some consequences for robbing people on the other side of the world.

You know countries with extradition agreements can request extraditions in the other direction, as well?

If an american does a crime in Australia, but makes it back to the states, Australias government can also go “yeah so uuuh that guy killed a dude over here, gonna need him back for trial”.

It’s what makes it less likely people will just do crime all over other countries and then return home to escape punishment.