re: "Singapore defends drug crime execution amid outcry over man’s IQ" (BP, April 28, 2022)
Dear editor,
Sorry Singapore, you are wrong; you have committed yet another grave injustice. Your excuse for killing a human being who never harmed nor directly threatened to harm another person without their consent fails. Even if Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam were of above average intelligence, killing someone merely for using or selling drugs is morally indefensible. Drug use, whether alcohol, heroin, yaa baa or whatever, is a personal matter until it directly harms or threatens to harm others.
Singapore has better grounds to execute drink drivers, whose drug use does indeed kill and threaten to kill others against their will. As we were reminded in Thailand over the recent Songkran celebration, the drug alcohol kills far more every day than every currently illegal drug combined. The mere sale or use of alcohol or heroin or whatever neither harms nor directly threatens to harm others.
The other excuse used to violate personal liberty to decide how to live your own life is the communist or more ancient monarchist notion that individuals are the slave property of the state, which therefore has the right to mold everyone into a productive unit to serve the interests of the state above any personal preferences. That is why Mao and his heirs, why Stalin and his heirs, why Kim the First and his heirs cheerfully dictate every aspect of the lives of their productive property-of-the-state citizens. That identical principle of communist ideology would also seem dear to the hearts of the authoritarians ruling over Singapore's two-legged state chattels, who must be reared like any other stock to maximize the return for the invested owners.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on MonthDate, 2022, under the title "Slave mentality" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2302802/slave-mentality
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