Here's his son making the same point about another incident. This is Singapore's justification for executing them with impunity. They are extremely sensible about this matter, because they know the truth is that drugs are very bad.

Lee Kuan Yew and his son have explained this concept well. Hard drugs can destroy families and rip apart more lives than a murder. Here's LKY:

Yep, we've known this forever. The problem is that the PoPo and LEA communities used this issue on SOFT DRUGS. Now they have ruined their credibility and it's very hard to stop the hard stuff tldr; they should've let the hippies have their pot and focused on all the other hard stuff

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As an American, I wish our political leaders spoke English this well and expressed themselves this cogently.

They speak the same way. Insane

I think the problem with this is that when you say “drugs”, half of people are thinking about a dime bag of weed, and the other half are thinking about fentanyl. We’re fundamentally not talking about the same thing.

The "Australian" in question.

I think of the force the state applies against criminals like the force on a piston: surface areas x pressure Singapore may apply great pressure to their criminals, but as a result there are so few that the total amount of force used against criminals is actually small.

Please go read some stuff about the relative harms of different drugs It's crazy how smart people can be so not curious about the subject and for example think it makes sense to keep alcohol legal and ban many less harmful drugs Drugs are not bad as a category, it's complicated