NexaJan 17

What do you think of the Singapore approach to drugs ?

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What do you think of the Singapore approach to drugs ? - Lemmy.World

Singapore is an international trading hub. It’s also one of the healthiest and safest city in the world. It’s approach to drugs is controversial in the West. Recently, Billionaire Richard Branson urged Singapore to avoid executing drug dealers : The Government of Singapore replied this : > Our policies on drugs and the death penalty derive from our own experience. We are satisfied – as are the overwhelming majority of Singaporeans – that they work for us. >Nothing we have seen in the UK or in the West persuades us that adopting a permissive attitude towards drugs and a tolerant position on drug trafficking will increase human happiness. Where drug addiction is concerned, things have steadily worsened in the UK, while things have steadily improved in Singapore. https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/media-detail/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-sir-richard-branson-blog-post-on-10-october-2022/ [https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/media-detail/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-sir-richard-branson-blog-post-on-10-october-2022/] What do you guys think ?

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The European Union has an ideological focus on the death penalty, but I would like to ask them if they have a better solution.

Mr Branson is entitled to his opinions. These opinions may be widely held in the UK, but we don’t accept that Mr Branson or others in the West are entitled to impose their values on other societies. Nor do we believe that a country that prosecuted two wars in China in the 19th century to force the Chinese to accept opium imports has any moral right to lecture Asians on drugs.

Nothing we have seen in the UK or in the West persuades us that adopting a permissive attitude towards drugs and a tolerant position on drug trafficking will increase human happiness. Where drug addiction is concerned, things have steadily worsened in the UK, while things have steadily improved in Singapore.

Man they are absolutely cooking here. Both in calling out the white supremacist attitudes of the west and in being rational.

Jan 17 at 4:14pmWeb