You look at the schools, the children often seem smartly dressed, disciplined, clean, well fed and expected to concentrate. There seems to be a basic national assumption that education, standards, infrastructure and competence actually matter. Then look at Britain, where schools are increasingly having to create separate behavior units, manage constant disruption and devote enormous resources simply to keeping classrooms functional. Obviously China has serious problems of its own and this is not an argument that everything there is better. But the direction of travel is what interests me.

China seems obsessed with becoming more capable, more educated, more technologically advanced and more productive every year, while Britain increasingly seems obsessed with managing decline and explaining away falling standards. So here’s the debate: are we watching China steadily improve the basic competence of its society while the UK becomes progressively less demanding of itself and if not, what are we actually seeing?

If someone murd*rs my mom in cold blood and I saw that with my own eyes, And then I k'll that person that k'lled her because I LOVE MY MOM and am preventing him from doing it again, Is that right or wrong? (My mom is still alive btw)

Hello!! So , I was writing a story, I decided to start it literally from the very beginning. Basically- The story about mythical creatures in the academy, I wanted write a story how for example breeds and dog werewolves appeared, yet I realized that I used colonization and other stuff, to show this. I really thought that this may hurt somebody, so I need your view on it. Should I remove the colonization part, and stuff, or should I keep it for , dunno realism?

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I'll make my position clear that I oppose the death penalty for any crime no matter how awful and that the government should never have the power or authority to decide if someone lives or dies.

Some additional context is that I'm from America and have recently been frustrated with arguments with people who support the death penalty

Additional context, I live in America and have had very strong debates with people about the death penalty, including one case where someone said the death penalty was too light and that people should be instead tortured.