I’ve been meaning to visit the Emirates.
Islam there has morphed into what a truly Christian America used to be like.
Probably it’s values are indistinguishable from what ours used to be.
We on the other hand have morphed into a cesspool.
I read someplace that shoplifting gets you up to a to a year. Falling behind on your car payments gets jail time too, although I don’t remember how much. There are a surprising number of abandoned luxury vehicles where the owner decided to leave the car and the UAE rather than face the punishment for falling behind on the payments. While I think that just letting the bank repossess the car would be good enough, I have to agree on the penalty for shoplifting. If our shoplifters got a year every time they committed the crime I suspect the “shrinkage” would slow to a trickle.