We have standards and keep away from mob justice, public shaming, the death penalty and indentured servitude slavery.

Gee, I wonder how ya’ll got those vaunted standards. Weird. Could have been just about anything, couldn’t it.

Seriously, the US has a lot of our own shit to get together, but lets not throw too many stones over the moral superiority of european countries either. Especially right now, in the face of the growing influence of far-right parties across the, ahem, “civilized” world. The US is a whole omnibus of cautionary tales right now, it might be worth hearing one or two of them out instead of going directly to “unbelievable cliche”.