Some countries manage to enforce it better. But I agree it would be more difficult to enforce this in the west.

That is not my suggestion at all. When I can help, I do. When I can say something, I do. Still, we should not overgeneralize. Everybody is an individual and should be treated as such.

I understand that.

Then good news! There are people doing this. I’m in a discord where some people work on a bot that basically calls out that stuff on reddit. Making the bot is straightforward, the problem is it keeps getting banned for arguing. The hardest part is keeping the reddit account alive.

And in the west they seem to be getting worse. Anecdotal, but that’s what I’ve been experiencing.

I got beat and blooded multiple times in highschool locker rooms. I’d estimate a lot higher than 30% of people are the issue.

I don’t interact with anybody who does this. Really, outside of my wife and my close family I don’t interact with anybody. Partially due to being assaulted multiple times, my anxiety goes through the roof.

It’s horrible how some people treat each other, but understand just because I’m perceived to be part of a specific gender doesn’t mean I have meaningful opportunity to do anything about it. I’m just a human, and while I agree other humans are often bad, it’s out of my scope to do anything really impactful. I understand what is happening. It’s much much worse than you state. It’s worse in ways I probably would get banned for typing out on this site. Worse than you can possibly imagine. That’s something society needs to address, and as an individual I cannot convince other people how bad it is or how extreme of action we need to take. And not for lack of trying.

It’s good threads like this spread awareness, but reduction will not further the cause of improving the situation.

The burden of proof is the one making the original claim. It was anecdotal, so it can be dismissed anecdotally.

What if they were banned from owning a smartphone or any camera phone? And banned from social media?

Most young men and women choose not to date. “Choosing the bear” isn’t limited to one gender. And yes, I understand it, at least partially. It’s rough out there.

It is horrible how some people treat others, but it is not my responsibility or prerogative to police others actions. There’s nothing wrong with being single, and not dating is a personal choice which I would never criticize, but blaming 50% of the population for the actions of a minority is the definition of bigotry.

It breaks my heart that things are becoming more hostile and hateful. I hope I live to see the pendulum swing the other way.

Annexation of Tibet (1950-1951)

Invasion of Paracel Islands (1974)

Southern Mongolia Annexation (1947-1949)

Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: China claims the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Islands), which are currently controlled by Japan but also claimed by Taiwan.

PROC claims Taiwan as a province, but Taiwan operates as a de facto independent country.

South China Sea (Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia), PROC claims nearly the entire South China Sea under its “Nine-Dash Line”, leading to conflicts with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and others.

India - China claims Arunachal Pradesh as “South Tibet.”

But it’s important to point out that “China” isn’t a country, rather a region. The country people generally refer to when they say “China” is the PROC. If you go back 1000 years there was no “China” country, there was the Ming Empire in the China region. I understand this perspective bothers people, but consider this, if you need to reduce countries to regions then you’re going to be bothered for the rest of your life.

Japanese workers get more days off than American workers.

Japan 26

USA 10

Japanese on average don’t work longer than Americans (2017)

#39 United States 1,765.00

#43 Japan 1,738.36

Don’t get me wrong, they have a crazy work culture, but it’s worse in the USA.

Even without capitalism you need production, and children used to be part of that. Back then you would have as many kids as you could so that they could run your farm.

I’m not defending the current system, but profit isn’t the only reason the birthrate is declining in so many countries.

Had me in the first half lol

Japanese are very against violence, and incidentally it’s the safest first world country. And the work culture has been improving in the last decade or so - though not nearly fast enough.

Japans GDP has been almost flat since the mid 90s, they are not following the west’s “”“infinite”“” growth. Not that I’m saying capitalism isn’t part of the problem, it absolutely is, just saying it isn’t the entire story.

my hands are filthy so that’s fine

Those are some well made tutorials!

Internet is going to be internet, but this place is like 10% as adversarial as reddit from my experience so far. I haven’t even had anybody DM me to end myself yet. At reddit I got those for saying my favorite game was Total Annihilation.