keystroke said:
I can't wait for this idiot to die, the less heroin traffickers in the world the better. if you're stupid enough to try and smuggle drugs throughout asia, you are deserving of nothing short of execution.
why should our government try and help a heroin smuggler? what would happen if this heroin got into australia, then someone broke into your grandmothers place, bashed her over the head to steal a hundred dollars to buy this heroin? would you still think he is not deserving of the punishment given?
No offence but why are you even on this website anyway?
If I wanted to read thick-headed, ignorant, right-wing drivel like that, I'd go read a Murdoch paper or tune into talkback radio.
This goes for anyone else who thinks it's okay to take someone's life for strapping 400 grams of heroin to their body. I can only imagine what incredibly heartless and incomplete lives you must have lead to hold such low value for the sanctity of human life.
Firstly, someone has to deal drugs. Whether you believe in our drug laws or not, it's likely that because you're on this website you have taken an illicit drug at some point or another in your life (if you haven't then please ignore my rantings).
If you've ever enjoyed taking drugs, then someone, somewhere has had to have made an effort to manufacture, traffic and distribute that drug for your personal indulgance. Regardless of the fact that the overwhelming majority of people involved in such an enterprise are doing it out of greed, the fact remains; we are all most likely here because of these people. To whom we also owe all friendships, experiences and interactions through this website because none of it would happen if people didn't illegally make and move drugs.
The hypocrisy of some people is astounding.
Secondly, while I don't doubt the man made a very, very big mistake, it's quite a stretch to argue that he should be put to death for it.
Even though I oppose the death penalty completely, that's not to say I don't sympathise with the argument that it should be used as a sentence for murderers and rapists, but for moving drugs?
How, in any way, is that punishment in proportion to the crime?
Tuong Van was twenty-two years old when he was arrested at Changi airport three years ago. A lot of people at that point in their life make silly, silly, stupid mistakes. God knows I have, and so do most other people in their lives.
Imagine the biggest mistake you've ever made in your life. Imagine being judged for it in such a way as to say that you are irrevocably evil because of that mistake and that there is no room for rehabilition, the only mandatory sentence that can be given is death by hanging.
If you support this sentence, then basically you're saying that's the kind of society you'd like to live in. If you do, quite frankly you can get fucked and there's a few places I can suggest you go.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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