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All you need is to completely disregard human rights and Singapore is pretty decent.
Other than the gross attitude toward people from weaker country and their treament of maid as if they're dog, what other human right issue they have?
They love executing people and long prison sentences like it’s medieval era.
marijuana? DEATH
Well i blame the US for influence this part of the world with their war on drug campaign, and the fear of drug is the direct result of opium war. It's not even that long ago that US started to legalise recreational use of marijuana, it's kinda condescending to it in such simple way.
At least there's been multiple talk by the government of Malaysia (where i'm from) to decriminalise drug, not sure about Singapore.
US foreign and domestic policy certainly deserves a share of the blame. And we don't even have universal legal access here, it's a shit show.
Yeah. The issue with Singapore is they have extremely strong ruling party and nepotism run strong, so the old perspective will take some time to ease out. If there's more and more evidence piling up on medical use i'm sure they will move to decriminalise.
The only country to have legal recreational marijuana in South East Asia is Thailand, though they're about to pull back the decision.
dang, that's a shame for Thailand - new junta, new rules I guess.
Well they aren't junta, they legitimately won an election. I think you're confused Thailand with Myanmar lol
everyone's a junta. we've got the dem junta and conservative junta's over here vying for power. don't take it personally.
I thought it was mostly with the British and forcing Opium on the Chinese.
Yes, but the story and fear never left the community, it passed on for generations and spread across the south east asia.
well, that *technically *doesn't violate any human rights, i guess
If you don't consider living a human right
Not sure it's that simple, since liberty is also a human right, so punishing crimes with prison would also violate human rights if you follow that line of thinking
Mostly it does since most "crimes" and nonsense
A few? Sure. Most? Definitely not.
"other than abusing people from other countries, what other issue do they have"
Hey that's antisemite.
I love that I can feel your vernacular in your writing. please never change. /gen