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I think you misunderstood, abhorrent means disgusting, loathsome, terrible etc. So he’s saying Japan’s criminal justice system is unconscionable just like the US, not that they are equally bad.

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You seem to have misunderstood the comment you are replying to and the one it replied to.

This is literally what was replied to:

> Japan and America seem to be similar

I think you're actually misunderstanding what david38 and Retric are discussing. They're saying they're in agreement and that the US and Central America are similar, but not "equally bad".

I actually think you're all misunderstanding what you're discussing. No, I won't expand as to why, I just wanted to continue this alleged misunderstanding train.

All equilateral triangles are similar, they don’t all have the same magnitude.

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