Clayton E. Cramer
2009-07-13 10:28:40
“Yet, indicators such as infant mortality rates or years of average healthy life expectancy are slightly more favorable in Singapore than in the United States.”
Singapore is also a pretty controlling society. There’s a reason you don’t find bubblegum on the streets, and vandals find out what a whipping feels like. As of a couple of years ago, they were discussing whether to decriminalize homosexuality. (And yes, homosexuality increases medical costs, not just because of AIDS, but also syphilis and other non-lethal STDs.)
America has enormous freedoms–and there are costs that go with that freedom, too.
