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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.
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