A 19 year old, to hang at age 20, for being exploited by drug lords to deliver 47g of heroin
A 36 year old, fined $8000, for exploiting a 17 yr old girl, by bringing her in from china to become a prostitute, and living on her earnings. Ok his sentence was upped to 1 year.
The Health Minister, to ask parliament on Monday, to allow our society to kill our vulnerable, weak and suffering, without any criminal charge.
That’s just page8 of today’s TODAY. Turn to page18.
An entire nation prepares a funeral for 10 months and mourns the passing of an elderly woman.
Turn to page 24.
A man imprisons his own daughter for 24 years since she was 18, raping her repeatedly. He’s likely to spend the rest of his life with free food and lodging in an Austrian prison with much better conditions than he ever gave his imprisoned daughter. And being 73 already….
“Mr Fritzl’s daughter was bound in iron chains padlocked to a post in a cell that was frequently overrun by rats. Mr Fritzl regularly beat the soles of Elisabeth’s feel and forced her to perform sexual acts several times a day, often for several hours at a time. Mr Fritzl would also allegedly force her to watch pornographic films with him and make her re-enact the film scenes. Elizabeth gave birth to her seven children on her own while Mr Fritzl only made available a pair of scissors to cut the umbilical cord, a non-sterile blanket and a pack of nappies.”
I wasn’t planning to write this post. I wanted to stick to what I knew, about health care and medical science.
But these events make me wonder about how we, as a human race, value LIFE.
I’m actually pro-death penalty. When I read about what Mr Fritzl has done, I’m pro-death penalty.
Then I read about human traffickers, bringing in young girls to Singapore to become prostitutes, and they are given free food and lodging in our change resort for 1 year. Girls who should be in seconday school, JC, poly. Girls who are not allowed to watch RA(21).
And a 19 year old. I can see all the 19 year olds. They were my JC classmates, they were my brother, my students, the NS boys tired out on the mrt, the boys still waiting to watch an RA(21) movie, the boys whom the state cannot trust to make a vote for their government.
A 19 year old, to hang at 20, for 47grams.
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Add on: Had feedback that the post was not understandable enough (Thanks Daniel for feedback!), so here’s my point:
Looking at the difference in the sentences given for these 2 crimes, does it say something about the way these crimes are viewed? That exploiting and trafficking young girls gets you 1 yr, but stupidity (ie. being a teenager exploited to carry drugs for $2000) gets you death? What does that say about how human beings are valued, and how the punishments are so disproportionate in both extremes?
Daniel explains it well too, go check it out!
http://informationreadbyme.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-is-life-valued-in-court-from-mathia.html
How is Life valued in Court?
A 19 year old, to hang at age 20, for being exploited by drug lords to deliver 47g of heroin
A 36 year old, fined $8000, for exploiting a 17 yr old girl, by bringing her in from china to become a prostitute, and living on her earnings. Ok his sentence was upped to 1 year.
The Health Minister, to ask parliament on Monday, to allow our society to kill our vulnerable, weak and suffering, without any criminal charge.
That’s just page8 of today’s TODAY. Turn to page18.
An entire nation prepares a funeral for 10 months and mourns the passing of an elderly woman.
Turn to page 24.
A man imprisons his own daughter for 24 years since she was 18, raping her repeatedly. He’s likely to spend the rest of his life with free food and lodging in an Austrian prison with much better conditions than he ever gave his imprisoned daughter. And being 73 already….
“Mr Fritzl’s daughter was bound in iron chains padlocked to a post in a cell that was frequently overrun by rats. Mr Fritzl regularly beat the soles of Elisabeth’s feel and forced her to perform sexual acts several times a day, often for several hours at a time. Mr Fritzl would also allegedly force her to watch pornographic films with him and make her re-enact the film scenes. Elizabeth gave birth to her seven children on her own while Mr Fritzl only made available a pair of scissors to cut the umbilical cord, a non-sterile blanket and a pack of nappies.”
I wasn’t planning to write this post. I wanted to stick to what I knew, about health care and medical science.
But these events make me wonder about how we, as a human race, value LIFE.
I’m actually pro-death penalty. When I read about what Mr Fritzl has done, I’m pro-death penalty.
Then I read about human traffickers, bringing in young girls to Singapore to become prostitutes, and they are given free food and lodging in our change resort for 1 year. Girls who should be in seconday school, JC, poly. Girls who are not allowed to watch RA(21).
And a 19 year old. I can see all the 19 year olds. They were my JC classmates, they were my brother, my students, the NS boys tired out on the mrt, the boys still waiting to watch an RA(21) movie, the boys whom the state cannot trust to make a vote for their government.
A 19 year old, to hang at 20, for 47grams.
___________________________________________________________________________
Add on: Had feedback that the post was not understandable enough (Thanks Daniel for feedback!), so here’s my point:
Looking at the difference in the sentences given for these 2 crimes, does it say something about the way these crimes are viewed? That exploiting and trafficking young girls gets you 1 yr, but stupidity (ie. being a teenager exploited to carry drugs for $2000) gets you death? What does that say about how human beings are valued, and how the punishments are so disproportionate in both extremes?
Daniel explains it well too, go check it out!
http://informationreadbyme.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-is-life-valued-in-court-from-mathia.html