some babbler said:
The human rights charter applies to all humans. No beating and degrading punishments. You can kill people for stealing a dollar then the crime rate would be really low. But that is a police state, not a free society. America has the right to protect it's citizens from brutal situations.
really?
so what about war? what about abu ghraib? ahahah..
do you really think that the "human rights charter" has any power over anything?
you're talking like some amnesty international representative. the truth about what you can and cannot do isn't a piece of paper. it's what happens in reality.
kid breaks local law, kid suffers local punishment. i have no complaints. he's an american citizen? BIG FUCKING DEAL; SINGAPORE ISN'T AN AMERICAN STATE. maybe if he obeyed the rules he wouldn't have been punished.
you could argue that jail is inhumane as easily as you could argue that corporal punishment is inhumane.
the problem is that you're ignoring one simple fact: a guy broke a law and suffered the punishment that law carries. "police state" or not, singapore is sovereign and it was his own damn fault.
~ dan ~