Tuesday, November 29, 2005
hmmm... been really irritated by the whole hype abt the hanging of the drug trafficker... i mean... at the risk of sounding really unfeeling or uncompasionate... why is it such a big deal now?
to me the fact is simple and straightforward... when we play a game... we follow the rules... when we gamble at a casino... we follow the rules... so y not now... strict guidelines have already been laid out and i'm pretty sure most people know about the consequences of trying to smuggle drugs into singapore... so why are people from other countries getting upset about it? some people say it's barbaric and inhumane... and i agree that killing off another human being can indeed be seen as cruel... but that really isn't the question is it? the point really is that the guy took a gamble and has to pay for it with his life now... it's really as simple as that... i feel sorry for the mother and his loved ones for it is really his actions that have resulted in their sadness and agony... much like a gambler who loses all his money on one spin of the roulette... he has to live with the fact that he took a risk and it did not pay off... y i for one would certainly gamble more if i knew that some governments could help argue my way out of these losses... the same goes for the death penalty... it's as simple as that... the choice really is up to u... u take a risk... u gamble with ur life on the table... if it works out.. u get rich.. if it doesn't... u give ur life... it's as straightforward as that... and the whole idea of such a law in the first place is to deter people for doing such a thing... and yet there are individuals who constantly seek to play the game and end up losing their lives...
i feel for the family and friends of the individual... and my condolences to them all... 25 is really a young age... barely 2 years older than me... its sad that his life has to end now... but really... he made the decision by himself... i once has a french teacher who was vehemently against the death penalty... when i tried to reason with him the rationale behind my thoughts... he replied... "when we jaywalk... we all put our lives at risk as well... so why do people still do it?"... in fact that was exactly my point... people who jaywalk are indeed putting their lives at risk... and the payoff for succeeding? getting to the other side more quickly... but really... the risk of getting knocked down is many times smaller than that of getting caught smuggling drugs into singapore... people who think that the death penalty is barbaric probably are right... and that is exactly the reason why it is used here... to make sure fewer people take up such a wager... but when someone eventually does... proceedings just really have to follow... like in the recent the apprentice 3... when donald trump fired this guy whose team lost because another member had gained immunity and basically slacked his way thru the episode... he told the guy who was fired... that regardless of the circumstances... he had to play by the rules of the game... they were set and he had to go by them... so wake up people... wake up and play by the rules... it's not difficult to do it... millions of peoples have...
{12:02 AM}
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