I’ve lived in places with cops openly on the take who’d smile and take a raincheck if you were short, smile and share a beer or a cofee with you if you liked, and smile and help you if you needed it, and none of it needed radioing back to HQ for permission.

Where I come from, there are freedoms and rights so corruption cant possibly happen because it would be outrageous. Of course there is corruption, but because people dont want to believe it, the ones calling out the corruption are called lunatics.

In one environment, you can be forced to pay a one time “fine” if a policeman decides to stop you and shake you down without you doing anything illegal.

In another, you can have your assets, children, and freedom siezed forever so a cartel of cops, judges, and politicians can justify their pay checks. Because how could all these people possibly be corrupt?

Which is more civililized?

In the UK it is illegal for an individual woman to sell your eggs, and compo is capped at 750 quid, so there is a shortage of eggs to go around, both for fertility and for research, so it would appear that “valuable” organs are harvested, and it is not illegal for the harvesting organisation to recieve a donation that is *not* capped at 750 quid from the end recipient… and when an individual egg is worth between 750 quid and 10,000 bucks, how much is two ova with a life time supply of approximately 100,000 pre egg follicles worth if you can keep it alive in vitro? and use it either for stem cell therapy or fertility treatments?

‘Refugees welcome’ indeed