The prevention to crime is a better policy

Posted by admin on April 9th, 2011 filed in General

Reply to previous post

I agree that prevention of course is the better policy. The question is however, where to draw the line. If the police can actually encourage, or even give you incentives to do something which can get you thrown in jail for the purpose of preventing crimes, where is the line drawn then?

Secondly, I think you must also consider this issue from another perspective. The basis for my argument is this. Of all the possessions in the world that a person can have, the single most indisputable thing that one owns is one’s body. And I firmly believe that no one has a right to tell you what you can or cannot do with your body.

The important question is this: if the State can tell you whether you can take drugs or not, then what is there to stop them from deciding what other things they can or cannot do with your body? Such as suicide (which is illegal in Singapore)? Or sexual orientation (homosexuality is also effectively illegal in Singapore)? And perhaps one day, should any one of our policy-makers be a religious fundamentalist, abortion will also become illegal, or any other thing that offends the moral sensibilities of conservative people.