Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryanb9
What country in the world treats its citizens the most fairly?
Where they have the most human rights and the least fear of people getting away with doing bad things to them?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShoeMakerLevy9
USA
Surely not, right. I mean, it could be, but only by process of elimination. The U.S. has a lot of room for improvement.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news...united-states/
Quote:
International statistics from 2006 show that the United States has an incarceration rate of 738 per 100,000 population, the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Approximately 2.3 million persons are incarcerated in the United States as of October 2006, which is a far higher number, by almost a million, than any other nation in the world, accounting for about one quarter of the world’s incarcerated population. [graphic omitted]
Put another way, our incarceration rate is more than five times that of Europe, Canada, Australia, or Japan.
Quote:
It has been estimated that in the United States today, there are approximately 750 thousand individuals incarcerated for victimless crimes, as well as 3 million on parole or probation. Approximately 4 million are arrested each year for victimless crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_..._United_States
Quote:
According to The Washington Post, federal asset forfeiture in 2014 accounted for over $5 billion going into Justice and Treasury Department coffers, while in comparison, official statistics show that the amount stolen from citizens by burglars during that same year was a mere $3.5 billion.
Quote:
Critics argue that innocent owners can become entangled in the process to the extent that their 4th Amendment and 5th Amendment rights are violated, in situations where they are presumed guilty instead of being presumed innocent.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/...index-2022.pdf
Code:
The Human Freedom Index 2022
Rank | Freedom rank change (2019–2020) | Country/Territory | Personal freedom | Economic freedom | Human freedom | Freedom score change (2019–2020)
1 0 Switzerland 9.35 8.37 8.94 ▼ 0.23
2 0 New Zealand 9.09 8.27 8.75 ▼ 0.29
3 ▲ 2 Estonia 9.28 7.95 8.73 ▼ 0.21
4 ▼ 1 Denmark 9.17 8.09 8.72 ▼ 0.29
5 ▼ 1 Ireland 9.30 7.86 8.70 ▼ 0.25
6 ▲ 1 Sweden 9.45 7.56 8.66 ▼ 0.19
7 ▲ 3 Iceland 9.29 7.73 8.64 ▼ 0.20
8 ▼ 2 Finland 9.33 7.64 8.62 ▼ 0.25
9 ▲ 4 Netherlands 9.12 7.75 8.55 ▼ 0.25
10 ▼ 3 Luxembourg 9.23 7.54 8.53 ▼ 0.32
11 0 Australia 8.85 8.04 8.51 ▼ 0.32
11 ▲ 1 Norway 9.17 7.58 8.51 ▼ 0.30
13 ▼ 6 Canada 8.95 7.81 8.47 ▼ 0.38
14 ▼ 1 Taiwan 8.98 7.68 8.44 ▼ 0.36
15 ▲ 7 Latvia 8.89 7.77 8.42 ▼ 0.20
16 0 Japan 8.80 7.82 8.39 ▼ 0.36
17 ▲ 2 Lithuania 8.71 7.82 8.34 ▼ 0.38
18 ▲ 5 Czech Republic 8.75 7.75 8.33 ▼ 0.28
18 0 Germany 8.81 7.65 8.33 ▼ 0.40
20 ▼ 5 United Kingdom 8.72 7.71 8.30 ▼ 0.49
21 ▲ 3 Belgium 8.92 7.37 8.27 ▼ 0.28
22 ▼ 1 Austria 8.76 7.56 8.26 ▼ 0.42
23 ▼ 7 United States 8.42 7.97 8.23 ▼ 0.52
The U.S. ranks 23rd on the Human Freedom Index. Higher than most countries of course, but there are many above it. Even arguing that changes in the weights and definitions could bring the U.S. higher, it's unlikely that it would be #1 by any objective system. There may be other reasons to prefer living the U.S., of course, than freedom and justice.
I'm not sure how to measure the second part of OP's definition: "the least fear of people getting away with doing bad things to them".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximus122
Militarily they are a neutral country, so it's definetly not them.
You find your true friends on the battle field.
In fact, Switzerland turned away Jews during WW2 to certain slaughter.
By OP's definition, none of this matters. I would argue that neutrality is a better way to keep your own citizens safe, than to get embroiled in other's conflicts.
