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He has a point. I hate MUNI because it's so dirty, and some of the homeless people are just plain nuts.

In Singapore you don't see anything disgusting. How does that work?

Singapore... haven't been there, but it sounds like the absolute polar opposite of SF. In Singapore, you may get in trouble for hugging in public. If SF, until a few months ago, you could walk around naked as long as you were carrying a towel. If you point out that Singapore's hugging law isn't enforced very strictly, well, San Francisco doesn't really enforce the "no pissing in a public fountain in broad daylight" especially strictly.

I actually wish SF could realize that it's possible to have an intensely tolerant and open society without putting up with this kind of blight. Then again, Singapore could realize that they could maintain their very strict public civility without passing laws about what people can do in their own bedroom.

But then, where would we get our "top ten things that are allowed/illegal in SF/Singapore" lists? Toronto?

You don't see it in Singapore because Singapore is a heavily-controlled state where tons of things are capital offenses and you are subjected to physical violence (caning) for things as minor as vandalism.

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