"What would he tell me if I told him I was Swiss? Or German?"

- If you were Swiss, you wouldn't write so condescendingly, being a small country of your own.

- If you were German writing like this, I have only one word for you "Lebensraum". Sound familiar?

By the way, I think it is perfectly okay to dispute. For instance, saying - macroevidence that the death penalty does not have a clear effect on capital crimes in the US. Does the death penalty work in SG? How can we be sure?

Rather than: "These backward Asian monkeys still practice archaic execution and torture. Look how pitiful these drug row inmates are! Shame!".

One asserts to know the obvious truth, another seeks to find out, question, engage.