Thursday, December 01, 2005
DON'T DEAL DRUGS IN A COUNTRY THAT WILL EXECUTE YOU FOR IT
And don't call that country "barbaric" if one of your citizens gets hanged for it.
And don't call that country "barbaric" if one of your citizens gets hanged for it.
Comments:
I agree that it's stupid to sell drugs in a country that will kill you for it. But, why shouldn't we call a barbaric act, "barbaric"?
It'd be stupid for a Jew to move to Germany in the late 1930s. Yet, when the Jew was inevitably put into a concentration camp, would it be wrong to say that Germany was acting in a barbaric manner?
In other words, the foolish acts of one of your citizens doesn't negate the barbarous acts of another country.
Luke
It'd be stupid for a Jew to move to Germany in the late 1930s. Yet, when the Jew was inevitably put into a concentration camp, would it be wrong to say that Germany was acting in a barbaric manner?
In other words, the foolish acts of one of your citizens doesn't negate the barbarous acts of another country.
Luke
I found it more sort of ironic because dealing drugs on a nationwide level is, itself, barbaric. All those drugs would potentially kill quite a lot of people.
Granted, I think the death penalty is barbaric, too. But if you're gonna deal drugs in a country that will give you the death penalty for it...well, I have no sympathy. Nor would I throw around my holier-than-thou stick about it.
Granted, I think the death penalty is barbaric, too. But if you're gonna deal drugs in a country that will give you the death penalty for it...well, I have no sympathy. Nor would I throw around my holier-than-thou stick about it.
I think that the governmental control over which substances it’s citizens are allowed to put in their bodies is, itself, barbaric. Sure, drug use ends up killing a lot of people each year, but automobile accidents kill even more. Should we consider it barbaric for someone to deal cars?
It's absolutely barbaric for a country to hold the policy of killing someone who is guilty of what is essentially as much of a victimless crime as selling cars is. This is precisely the time when people should be waving their holier-than-thou sticks.
Luke
It's absolutely barbaric for a country to hold the policy of killing someone who is guilty of what is essentially as much of a victimless crime as selling cars is. This is precisely the time when people should be waving their holier-than-thou sticks.
Luke
You make good points. But it seems irrelevant what we think of the laws. The laws exist, period. And their laws say if you deal drugs, we kill you. So, the logical thing to do sounds like you shouldn't deal drugs.
We could go in circles about this all day, I know. But if I were that country, I wouldn't be defending drug dealers, many of whom target kids (like cigarette companies do). And we both know how dumb kids are.
We could go in circles about this all day, I know. But if I were that country, I wouldn't be defending drug dealers, many of whom target kids (like cigarette companies do). And we both know how dumb kids are.
Laws can be changed. If a large percentage of the world wide community views your country’s laws as barbaric, it just may spark some change within. The Australian Attorney General declaring that the policy of killing drug dealers is “barbaric” may be a fairly futile act all by itself, but it can’t hurt. Even if it amounts to nothing, you should never discourage calling a spade a spade.
As for targeting children…..well, that’s fairly despicable. Yet, I think it’s more despicable for people to hand over their parenting roles to the government, which inevitably leads to the lessening of freedoms for all. Let parents protect their children from drugs, and let grown adults take any drug they so desire.
Luke
As for targeting children…..well, that’s fairly despicable. Yet, I think it’s more despicable for people to hand over their parenting roles to the government, which inevitably leads to the lessening of freedoms for all. Let parents protect their children from drugs, and let grown adults take any drug they so desire.
Luke
I agree with all that stuff. Although in this case, they're calling a spade a spade on behalf of a guy who sells a different kind of spade. Or something..
By the way, it seems a good chunk of the world despises execution. But that hasn't swayed the U.S. from ranking third in the world for it, just under Iran and North Korea. Hey..aren't they in the so-called Axis of Evil? What the hell does that make the U.S.??
By the way, it seems a good chunk of the world despises execution. But that hasn't swayed the U.S. from ranking third in the world for it, just under Iran and North Korea. Hey..aren't they in the so-called Axis of Evil? What the hell does that make the U.S.??
All I know is, if they get the wrong guy(and apparently they didn't this time), they can't say "Sorry we screwed up" to the person executed via the bad decision/law.
That's grounds enough to call the concept of the Death Penalty deserving of its own death.
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That's grounds enough to call the concept of the Death Penalty deserving of its own death.
