I need to move to a country that isn't insane

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I think all countries have crazies in them and corruption. I thought maybe Pitcairn island would be safe but I just recently heard about sex assault trials that went on there in 2004. So even with a population of 50, there are still people who are f****d. I don't think there is a country that isn't insane unless you move somewhere that is inhibited by people. But then there will be no food supply and no internet and no cars, nothing. It will be just like living like the cave men and you would have to build your own hit out of wood and leaves if you decide to live somewhere tropical like Henderson Island but I hear that island gets hit with trash pollution. I assume all the trash floats to it and washes a shore.

Yeah, I'm tired of this insanity too. Merry late Christmas everyone.

So where were they the last four years? Hibernating?

Hasn't Pitcairn island always had issues with child sexual abuse? If I recall correctly it's basically the result of being founded by stranded sailors on an island where the culture was already open to involving non-adults in sexual activity. This would have changed the overall attitudes from being typical of pre-contact Polynesia (sex is good, everyone's free to engage if they'd like) to one with mostly western norms (sex is dirty and should be controlled) but while maintaining the attitude that the kids were fair game to be exploited.

I don't think there isn't a country in this world today, that isn't insane in one way or another.

Don't move here.

You shouldn't believe that liberals are better. In my country the government obliges to self-employed workers and entrepeneurs to paying all taxes even if the don´t work or have very few benefits because the Covid. And refuses to give any help, while the government does have money to give to its client network, friends and subsidized groups. Really this government has always been hostile against entrepeneurs, but they take advantage of the current situation to go further.

¿Consequences? They are massively bankrupt, many people have gone unemployed, we have a youth unemployment of 40% and rising. The economy is in tatters and many people go to soup kitchens to survive.

Not particularly good for aspergers, in Spain prevails the group structure, the individual only counts as a member of a large family and clientele network, if you get out the norm and you do your own thing, it will be quite bad for you.

You don´t have the right to defend yourself in your own home, a thief with a knife enters in your house, if you defend yourself with a firearm, you go to the jail and/or you have to pay a compensation, even if it was in self-defense.

We have a vice president (we have 4 vice presidents and 22 ministers, incredible!) who admires Hugo Chavez and that until reciently considered Venezuela (one of the worst countries in Latin America, when it could be one of the best, it is an oil country, but nothing supports a terrible government) an example to follow,

We have engineers, mathematicians and physicists working as computer programmers because they cannot find work of their own, because almost nothing is researched or manufactured here. We have economists working as accountants for the same.

Men have fewer legal rights than women, so that if a women reports you for violence (and you are a man), you have to prove your innocence, because you haven´t presumption of innocence, therefore you are guilty unless proven otherwise.

And I can go on like this for a while, what i mean by this is that in other countries there are equal or worse problems.

Hi Drolo,
Just yesterday, I had someone asking for opinions specifically on the advantages and disadvantages of your system, with a judge investigating a case, vs the British tradition where the advantage goes to the party with the bigger budget for lawyers. How is it working, and how might it be with better anti-corruption measures?

Peace corps

Join the military

Teach english in a different country

I'm too old to join the military, and I certainly don't want to go anywhere Peace Corps would send me.

I thought about teaching English in another country for years. I have a TESOL.

But I'm hesitant to go somewhere I don't know anybody and don't speak the language. And there's little or no demand for English teachers anywhere I would want to go. The biggest market for English teachers is in Southeast Asia, and that part of the world is particularly hostile to people struggling with mental illness.

Hi.

I don't know the UK judicial system, so I will just talk about the Spanish judicial system. The main problem I see is that he is very politicized in high positions, because there is no real separation of powers.

The "Consejo General del Poder Judicial", the Judicial Branch, their members are elected by the Parliament. At the same time, the Judicial Branch elects the judges of the "Tribunal Supremo", the top of the judicial system. In the same way, the "Tribunal Constitucional", who is the one in charge of interpreting de Constitution and to judge if the laws passed are in accordance with them. Well, their members are elected by the Parliament and the Judicial Branch - in turn elected by the Parliament-, so there isn't independence, obviusly those in line with the govermment's line are elected.

For example: the "Tribunal Constitucional" considered valid a law that makes the aggresions of a man towards his parner more penalized than the other way around. This law has been expanding, and actually not only applied as a couple, if a woman denounces you for harassement, for to said a compliment, etc, this law applies. Also, this law removes the presumption of innocence fron man, because the statement is taken only from the woman, it is not taken from the man, and almost taken from granted that the woman's statement is true. Police arrests the denounced man immediately without even taking his statement and without investigating anything. In addiction, there is a especific court that exists exclusively for these cases, they don't go through the civil court, as would be normal.

This court has their own judges, which have a clear bias, in this court, the man has a reverse onus, so that man must prove his innoccence in order not to be condemned, because the woman's statement is considered sufficient evidence.

In addiction, if the couple is in divorce proceedings, if the wife denounces her husband, and proves her innocence, the divorce proceedings doesn't return to the civil court -where it would take place if the complaint hadn't happened-, but continues in the special court witch I have already spoken. So many times it happens that there are false complaints to obtain advantages in divorces.

Even if there is an aggression on both sides, are judged differently and in different courts.

This is obviously contrary to the Constitution, which establishes in article 14 the equality before the law of all spaniards. Well, it seems to the "Tribunal Constitucional" that this law doesn't violate it at all, because it has declared that it is according to the Constitution.

This is an example to show how politicized is justice in Spain. Having said that, is true that at lower levels, to access the judiciary is accesible to anyone with a law degree and to overcome opposition. But those who don't follow the official line, usually don't rise much.

I don't know if with this I answer your question, if that is not the case, you can ask me more specifically and I'll answer what i know.

Regards.

Your results in those cases are similar to ours. Men have no better luck arguing with women in court than in bed, which is a fascinating study as well.
Here, we also tend to spend as much as we can for a lawyer. The theory is that each side can argue their own case, or hire an expert (recommended, and nominally supplied free to the indigent) and the judge and/or jury only decides who has the better argument and evidence. Often, the loser is ordered to pay for both lawyers as well as their fine. Inevitably, more expensive legal help can overwhelm a poor plaintiff or defendant, so the theory only applies before inequality sets in, if ever.
My understanding is that in Spain, the Judge has a budget to send people out to check if people are lying, so if he is not open to influence, the rich would not get better treatment by spending money, and nobody has lawyer bills. Can you comment on that contrast?
After much study, I think that corruption is always proportional to inequality, and always too slippery for the law. The only hope I see is to outlaw unreasonable inequality, however it might be obtained.

1. Autism is not a mental illness.
2. My son and I are both on the spectrum and live quite well in Taiwan.

Pretty much, yeah. It's not concentrated solely in the US if anyone's paying attention to what's going on in the world, and if OP wants a brand new definition of "normal" they can press their luck in a place such as you've described and see what it's like to live under a less civilized part of the world.

That, or learn how to get a better read on people and you can avoid a large portion of whatever insanity there is in your neck of the woods. Last I checked, socializing and mingling with others isn't a god given right.

1. I am diagnosed with major depression and anxiety disorder and am prone to emotional meltdowns.
2. You have your son with you. That's family support. I don't have that.

I'm convinced sensible Republicans are a fantasy that only exist in the dreams of centrists. They certainly haven't existed in the real world since the Tea Party took over.