Imagine this: a full-grown 25-year-old “adult” on a skateboard, vandalizing the MRT system like some rebellious teenager who never grew up. Or better yet, a Taiwanese gangster who thinks he’s untouchable, causing chaos in the streets. Now picture them bent over, receiving a few well-earned strokes of the cane… instant attitude adjustment.
Crime rates? Slashed overnight. Suddenly, all those “misunderstood youths” and wannabe tough guys would think twice before acting like degenerates. And let’s not forget the Chinese spies sneaking around Taiwan, spreading propaganda and undermining national security. Imagine the poetic justice of them getting a caning before being booted back to their glorious motherland.
A little discipline goes a long way. Maybe it’s time Taiwan stopped being soft and started making an example out of those who clearly need it.
Oh and maybe New York should take notes. Their subway system is a complete joke, packed with fare evaders, graffiti taggers, and criminals who know they won’t face consequences. Six lashes of the cane for jumping the turnstile? Sounds like a quick way to clean up the place.
No. Any form of government violence promotes certain type of people to gain attention by being copycats. These types of proposals are just trying to make societal issues go away by pretending that punishment already addressed the problems.
In the unlikely event that people like Han Kuo-Yu and Fu Kun-chi got enough power to enact something like this, the Constitutional Court would strike it down immediately as a violation of human dignity.
There have always been people in Taiwan who think Singapore in general and caning in particular is a good idea. Almost all of them are conservative KMT types who never wanted real democracy in the first place. Maybe you guys should vote KMT if you don’t do so already. Your ideological home in Taiwan is waiting for you.
I can already imagine a pedestrian being canned because he was not fast enough to avoid a car turning left and grazing him on a zebra crossing resulting in a small dent on the car…
Where are those “human rights” when criminals are out wrecking society, vandalizing public property, robbing innocent people, and making the streets unsafe?
You know what would actually protect human rights? Fear. Fear of getting six strokes of a bamboo cane across their backsides.
Your post demonstrates your lack of understanding of what rights are.
Secondly, your post is so full of hyperbole that it’s hard to take seriously, where exactly has society been ‘wrecked’? I can show you pics of Germany I took a month ago. It didn’t look very wrecked to me. But don’t trust DB. The on time rates suck.
And, as someone with a background in public policy/economics/politics, such assertions that fear of state sanctioned violence do not make crime go down.
If you want to live in a world where criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens, go ahead. Just don’t whine when you’re the one getting robbed, and the guy who did it walks free the next day with your wallet in his back pocket and your money spent on his bond.
Try New York, San Francisco, London, Paris and Berlin all overrun by degenerates who know there are zero consequences for their actions.
Tell that to Singapore, where caning keeps the streets clean.
Not all people who commit crimes think about consequences. Some are driven by mental health struggles, poverty, or straight-up survival. Such punitive measures are there to appease the public that some justice was done. It does not address the root of the problem.
