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Comment by ronilan | Hacker News Reader

What you should wonder is if this model is desirable in any term.

Generic ideological tangents are off topic on HN. You can't get much more generic (or ideological) than freedom-good-or-bad.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333236.

@dang - I don’t understand.

A: “X seems to have positive utility. I wonder if it is sustainable long term.”

B: “You should wonder if your utility function is suitable for any term.”

How is it ideological?

P.S - I never heard the term “idiological tangents” before. According to Google you are the only one using it. I’d say that’s a Wofelooperga.

From what I have heard from people living there most people seem OK with it.

People that aren’t ok with it probably move away, or never move there in the first place.

(But this is in principle self-balancing, so even if the people that live there are unrepresentative, perhaps it doesn’t matter.)

It's a full-on capitalistic, paternalistic, walled garden sort of society with some restrictions (strict gun and drug control, limited free speech, etc). If you want complete freedom (right to bear arms, shoot up drugs, spout any manner of speech, etc) Singapore is not for you. But if you are looking for safety, rule of law, good place to make money as a knowledge worker, and can tolerate some trade-offs in terms of freedom, it is a great place.

All over the world there are testosterone poisoned males engaging in as much obnoxious behavior as they can get away with (e.g. riding motorcycles with no mufflers). Particulary coming from the Southern US it is absolutely delightful to be in a place where "rednecks" are completley suppressed.

Please keep this kind of flamebait far away from HN.

Then move? I like my motorcycle and my testosterone. Thanks for male shaming.

Edit. Thanks for the downvotes for pointing out literal bigotry. Wtf hn.

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