07 June, 2020

Quora Answer: Are Human Rights Violations in Singapore Related to Political Activities or Drugs-Related Crimes?


What do you mean by human rights violations?  If your definition of these violations are according to Amnesty International, then they have no credibility.  Amnesty International has its own agenda, and their own values which they push on others.

For example, Amnesty International considers the death penalty for serious crimes to be a human rights violations.  They emphasise the right of the criminal, the murderer, the kidnapper, the terrorist, to live, but they discount the rights of the victims, the murdered, the violated, the terrorised, to have justice.  There is no justice there.  Why should the rights of criminals matter more than the rights of the law abiding to a safe environment and freedom from fear?

Another example, Amnesty International claims that Singapore does not have freedom of speech.  But their idea of freedom of speech includes the freedom to slander and libel, the freedom of hate speech, and the denigration of other races and religions.  There is no such thing as freedom of speech without responsibility.

Singapore’s laws is strict.  And the benefit is low crime, and environment where people have no fear of darkened alleys, of random violence and the terrors of the criminal class.  It is a form of social engineering that if we hang enough murderers, enough drug traffickers, enough kidnappers, that others would learn.  If our safety, our peace of mind means violating the rights of criminals, I am all for it.


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