Equality before the law

Posted by admin on April 18th, 2011 filed in General

Nope, I have not confused the concept of “equality before the law”. When I said equality before the law, I meant in the enforcement of the law. Basically, if the CNB decided to catch the poor drug abusers, then it must also catch the rich, gay and medically-trained drug abusers, in the same even-handed way.

Yeah, I agree with you that it’s not at all clear where to draw the line. :-P That’s what public policy is mostly about — drawing the line between the protection of the individual’s rights and the so-called “good” of the many. :-P I dun have to tell you how the Singapore Garmen tends to like to draw the line do I?

Personally (and I’m speaking as an individual expressing his personal preference), I think the current line on drugs is good. As for the line on homosexuality, I think we should leave what happens behind close doors that doesn’t involve drugs out of the law.

I respect your views about the individual’s right to self-destruction like I mentioned earlier and I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just trying to bring some balance to this discussion. :-P

Kway Teow Man

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