SYDNEY, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Australian media Wednesday accused Singapore of hypocrisy for hanging insignificant drug mules while backing the heroin-producing nation of Myanmar.
One side of me says, they know the laws.
It's no secret in most parts of the world that Singapore is well-known for harsh laws. That's precisely why you find a significantly lower crime rate than most other countries. They know the risk. They take the chance.
But the other side of me says, the punishment is far greater than the magnitude of the crime.
It's no secret to many of my longtime readers that I am no fan of the death penalty (for several reasons). But if you are going to have a penalty in which the state can legally put a person to death, you need to make damned sure it is reserved for the most heinous of crimes. Anything else is barbaric and on the moral level of what the jihadists want to do.
Question. When was the last time you heard the UN, EU, and other ineffective bleeding heart moralists criticize Singapore for their death penalty? But we never run short on criticism on Gitmo, do we? We can't shake the rap on Abu Ghraib, can we?
2 comments:
Yes, it is true that Singapore has very strict laws. Anyone who has been there knows that. Thus, anyone who gets involved with drugs in Singapore is not only a complete idiot, but probably deserves to be executed -- we can calling it "cleaning out the gene pool."
I daresay that if we had laws here like that, we would be living in a much less violent society. So then should we ask, which of these two nations is more civilized?
I just have a problem with the state saying who lives and who dies. Because if that power were ever abused, you and I would die under some regimes. I don't think it is too far fetched here, someday. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but in our children's or grandchildren's.
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