Dear Dio,
It is always a 50/50 game, when using statistics to identify “the human condition”.
I would not use China, for any kind of measuring stick, when comparing things to inside the U.S., and here’s why, China’s only experience with “Freedom”, occured between the 1920’s until the invasion by Japan. shortly after the Japanese surrendered, Mao Tse Tung began his ‘long march’ to install Sino-style Communism, and the true democratic and free people of China, moved to an island called Formosa, which is now the Republic of Taiwan. So, the mainland Chinese had only a twenty and some year period of being free from the last emperor, until the first Communist Premier, only ‘half a generation’.
I would point you to take a look at our Old West, and judges like Roy Bean. Where the law was up[held, and justice for crimes committed was swift, things settled down a bit, you might say.
I do not grasp your point. In 1840 China began a long trek to massive addiction by 1900. I do not see where addiction has anything to do with freedom or Judge Roy Bean.