Pikamaster
In the ideal state of equilibrium, the total level of trust
should be equal to the total level of mistrust, total trust and
total mistrust existing at two ends of the same continuum.
It is truely indeed the ideal state of equilibrium and like most
ideal theorem, it is not realistic. There is no way we can measure
trust and mistrust on top of that, it is mistrust that brings about
the loudest noise.
But ideals cannot be achieved so easily. So in essence, the
democratic equilibrium is where the government trusts its people,
and the people mistrust the government.
Im not trying to deny that there should be estates available as
a counter check. But as i had mention, it is the people whom trust
the government in the first place and the government was formed out
of collective mistrust, how can u blame the government from
mistrusting?
4) *Sigh*
No, because there are
always other forms of punnishment which can be given to criminals.
ANd because there might be other more effective deterrents which
are yet to be pursued because of our addiction to the Death
Penalty.
There is no substaintial scientific prove for other punishments
which are more effective as a deterrent than death itself. As i had
said (in my first reply to your findings) although there seems to
be sources pointing that states abolishing the penalty did not
experience an increase in crime, it is not conclusive enough to say
for example if death sentences were allowed in this country, will
the crime figures decreases somemore? *refer to my previous
post.
Touch your heart and say that the death penalty is not the
strongest and loudest deterrent for you.
Such fear keeps us from progressing.
What do you mean by progress?
As it is, SIngapore is already the Land of Strokes and Banned
Chewing Gum , the "Disneyland with the Guillotine", do we need any
more names for it? More importantly, do we need Singaporeans in
other countries do be any more singled out for abuse and
humiliation. It would do a great service to national pride and
image if the Death Penalty for drug-trafficking was removed.
I dont see how national pride will increase with the abolishing
of death penalties, ISA etc. In fact those names do not affect me
at all as long as i know Singapore is safe. Remember what those
americans call us when we jail people without trial, look at what
they doing now after 911?
It shows that even those advocates have to resort to pragmatic but
painful ways to reinforce order afterall.
Our national pride increase onli when we look back and see that our
law and order is one of the best in the world ahead of those whom
refuses to engage in harsher penalties.
And of course, the other question about our drug-trafficking
cases are that evidence used can be extremely circumstantial, and
thus it is unfair to convict a person based on such evidence.
Is it that every drug trafficking case extremely
circumstantial?? Isnt this statement extremely circumstantial too?
If it is so, the issue is not on how the law states it's punishment
but how the judge assess the cases.
13) Really? I believe there were references to France, Macau and
Thailand? The government didn't refer to these countries when they
were all talking about the IR? Get real, man.
I never deny that.
I said that the government never based it's arguement largely on
the statistics of X Y Z countries and expect it to work for
Singapore. Many advocates for the abolishing of death sentence
expect things to work the same with statistic by just looking at
their arguement.
As i had said, there statistics are too shallow for us to make such
conclusion.
14) Marx was distinctly anti-religious from a political
standpoint. "religion is the opium of the people" referred to
religion being a tool for numbing pain, preventing people from
applying rational thought to their circumstance.
thank you for enlightening me on that. I will follow up by
studying his views.
I think i will stop here on my views about the issue. It is obvious
that we are standing on different poles with mi on the right and
you on the left. Thanks for sharing your views and i had really
benefited from it.
Thank you.
respectfully,
foxtrout8.
