<story><title>I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court</title><url>https://medium.com/@peretzp/i-got-arrested-in-kazakhstan-and-represented-myself-in-court-d3764fb738f1#.e2fu9nw2w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know even what to make of this... The preamble suggests that Kazakhstan justice was superior to American justice, but after reading the whole story I&amp;#x27;m like... dude, grow a sense of self-responsibility. It&amp;#x27;s not like your visa expiring was a surprise... you knew exactly when it was going to happen, and YOU CHOSE to violate it without giving yourself any wiggle room. Then you willingly participated in a corrupt system, rewarding those who profit from it.&lt;p&gt;It would have been so much easier and involve less questionable ethics to just leave more than 24 hours in advance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>I find this response, and the suggestions, exemplifying why Kazakhstan justice (as expressed in the story, I don&amp;#x27;t know how it&amp;#x27;s in general) is superior to American justice.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the ability to take the law and regulations lightly, when they&amp;#x27;re not that serious, and be humane about it.&lt;p&gt;I mean writing: &amp;quot;YOU CHOSE to violate it&amp;quot;, with added emphasis, as if having a visa expiring on the same day you leave a place (and literally while you&amp;#x27;re on a vehicle leaving it) is some kind of huge crime...</text></comment>
<story><title>I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court</title><url>https://medium.com/@peretzp/i-got-arrested-in-kazakhstan-and-represented-myself-in-court-d3764fb738f1#.e2fu9nw2w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know even what to make of this... The preamble suggests that Kazakhstan justice was superior to American justice, but after reading the whole story I&amp;#x27;m like... dude, grow a sense of self-responsibility. It&amp;#x27;s not like your visa expiring was a surprise... you knew exactly when it was going to happen, and YOU CHOSE to violate it without giving yourself any wiggle room. Then you willingly participated in a corrupt system, rewarding those who profit from it.&lt;p&gt;It would have been so much easier and involve less questionable ethics to just leave more than 24 hours in advance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awalGarg</author><text>I am gonna sound like the devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here, but I&amp;#x27;d take the risk:&lt;p&gt;He didn&amp;#x27;t intend to do anything malicious. He wasn&amp;#x27;t on drugs. Wasn&amp;#x27;t going to kill or rob anyone. He was maybe simply playing a mischievous kid, not a &amp;quot;bloody criminal&amp;quot;. Are laws really meant to be taken so rigidly? Has he actually done anything immoral (except for the bribe part, which I also confidently despise of)? Laws are meant to help people live comfortably and save the innocents from criminal. Yes he could have left 24 hours earlier, but maybe he felt it was more comfortable to leave later. He chose his comfort for the cost of absolutely nothing except not following a law, hopefully made to ultimately give comfort to people. He didn&amp;#x27;t harm anyone.&lt;p&gt;The fact that such a non-malicious &amp;quot;crime&amp;quot; (read: mischief) did not have to face the brutality given to actual criminals is enough evidence for me to believe that Kazakhstan&amp;#x27;s law is indeed superior to American law - because boy do I hear so much ill of the American law punishing innocents every other day on the internet.</text></comment>