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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by dyauspitr on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:02AM (#40362981)
I mean Singapore has draconian punishments for crimes too but they correspondingly have next to no drug use. We lose tens of thousands of people to fentanyl every year, whole towns are devastated etc. Hanging a few drug smugglers is definitely the lesser evil.

That being said, I enjoy my individual rights in the US and wouldn’t live anywhere else but there is a valid argument to be made that our ethics are sometimes a little too short sighted/individualistic and not holistic enough.

(I’m also definitely against the death penalty, just trying to make a point)

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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by shotnothing on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:06PM (#40374193)
The thing is, the death penalties in Singapore are in the single digits per year (out of a population of 6 million, effectively higher as this excludes non-citizens). People are not killed without thought, there is careful and lengthy investigations in each and every case.

The deterrence does work and saves countless lives that would have been taken from ODs and cartel-ish activities

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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by dyauspitr on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:32PM (#40374964)
Sure but it’s a smaller country and you’re making my point for me about the effect of draconian punishments.
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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by P_I_Staker on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:09PM (#40380716)
Plenty of places with extreme laws have terrible drug abuse, also.
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Re:Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a ... by fennecbutt on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:29PM (#40385402)
Not true at all, I worked there for a week. Clearly very wealthy African group on top of the marina Bay sands where we were paying like NZD$30 per vodka soda and these guys had multiple magnums of champagne, openly smoking weed.

Singapore = if you have money all of their supposed laws etc do not apply (just like so many other places).

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