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Nope

Singapore is a clean nation. It accomplish this with some strict laws with heavy fines if you break them. These laws would not be aloud in the United States. Some may say these strict laws should go as more freedom is good. I do think the US freedom is nice however I think having different country with strickte laws is good. As long as you are able to leave your home country. Many people might all agree that some law is good even if the majoraty does not. This is why I support Singapore strict laws. I am glad to obey them with the benefits the ofer like safety and cleanse. Many may not be fine living with such laws but they can go to some place with more freedom like the U.S. It would be a shame if the every nation had similer laws.

MayCaesar

Singapore was in a very unique situation: a small country on the crossroads between multiple nations, each staking its claim on the territory. A country with a history of corruption and heavy colonialism. Lee Kuan Yew's harsh stance and near-totalitarian laws may have been one of the few ways to salvage the country and turn it into a First World nation.
However, now that the country has been uplifted and joined the top world nations in terms of quality of life, the flaws of the system start showing themselves: corruption and cronyism are back in the full swing, the demands of the population for expanded freedoms remains unheard and leads to multiple political imprisonments, and many young specialists leave the country to seek the better future on the West.
I think Lee's policies were necessary (or, at least, one of the ways out) at the time, but now Singapore better follow Taiwanese and Korean paths of rapid democratization, unless its people want to go back to the old corrupt past.

The US, in turn, have never been in the situation where any salvaging by harsh methods was warranted. The country has pretty much been the leading nation in the world for the last 150 years, and even before that period it did not lag significantly behind the most prosperous nations on Earth. The States' democratic system resonated with the mentality of the people. Unlike Singapore, the population did not have to be changed forcefully for the desired outcome: it was already in the desired state.

To answer your general question, I think diversity of laws is necessary and is warranted by different countries finding themselves under different circumstances, requiring different policies - however, this diversity is only as good as it serves the nation's interest at the moment. I do not think that, for example, Saudi Arabia and North Korea are great positive examples of diversity: if anything, they show that "legal systems are relative" is not an absolute statement.

joecavalry

Yes, because it can create different political platforms and types.