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[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 168 points 8 months ago

All you need is to completely disregard human rights and Singapore is pretty decent.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 38 points 8 months ago

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?

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 53 points 8 months ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

dang, that's a shame for Thailand - new junta, new rules I guess.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 points 8 months ago

Well they aren't junta, they legitimately won an election. I think you're confused Thailand with Myanmar lol

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

everyone's a junta. we've got the dem junta and conservative junta's over here vying for power. don't take it personally.

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I thought it was mostly with the British and forcing Opium on the Chinese.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, but the story and fear never left the community, it passed on for generations and spread across the south east asia.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

well, that *technically *doesn't violate any human rights, i guess

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 8 months ago

If you don't consider living a human right

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Mostly it does since most "crimes" and nonsense

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

A few? Sure. Most? Definitely not.

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