• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    I’m neither Japanese nor a legal scholar of any kind nor focussed on legal system / prison reform.

    You said you are. Act like it. Or don’t, but then don’t say you are. The only thing I’m asking of you here is self-consistency. Focus on your focus. If in doubt, observe your process of focussing until you’ve figured out what you’re actually drawn to (the latter might feel suspiciously like Zen because it is Zen, with all the BS trappings removed).

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      I’m neither Japanese nor a legal scholar of any kind nor focussed on legal system / prison reform.

      Then we have nothing further to converse.

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        Then I guess you should unsubscribe from this community because it’s highly doubtful you’ll ever find anyone to talk to here.

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              It’s baked in our language. So was English, until individualism was propagandized.

              I’m not subscribed NCD, seeing as you could tell my communities.

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                So was English, until individualism was propagandized.

                Already Proto-Indo-European had first and second person pronouns, including the “I” vs. “me” distinction, try again. So do Uralic languages, which some argue forms a larger family with the Indo-European languages.

                So your propaganda event would be, at the minimum, something like 7000 years in the past.

                It’s Japanese which is the odd one out in this regard and I’d rather say it’s about a penchant for indirectness as well as hammering down nails which stick out, easier done when enforced in an impersonal manner. Not “I think you smell”, standing behind your words, meaning what you say and saying what you mean, opening yourself to challenge, but a fuzzy, out-of-nowhere-and-everywhere, “there is a smell in the room”. Btw what’s the net result of your justice system, and what are the cultural factors that allow neglecting basic rights of the individual in favour of the collective?