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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by cj2112
If i break a law, no matter how I feel about the law, I feel it is just that I am punished and serve the sentence imposed by said law, even if that means I am to be put to death. If heterosexual acts were to become punishable by death today, and I were to participate in that behavior, yes my being put to death would be just. Do not misunderstand I think the law banning homosexuality under penalty of death is ridiculous,even appalling, I believe that we agree on that point. My point is that these guys knew the risk they were taking and chose to participate anyways. To me, the law itself is disgusting, but these guys being put to death for breaking the law is not sad, unfair, or unjust. They were in my opinion given a perfectly fair and appropriate sentence. If the law said you were to be put to death for eating chocolate, and they ate chocolate I would feel the same way. I could care less what law these guys broke, they knew the penalty for the law they chose to break and they broke it anyway.
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Thisi is within the same vein as the visas to most SE Asian countries where it's written in red letters: DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS yet still there are foreigners who seem to think that they are exempt from this rule and think that their home governent should protect and bail them out.
Ask any Singaporean what they think about drugs and almost all of them will say that they are bad and that you will be killed if you are caught. What happens to most Singaporeans who are caught? They get put into rehabilitation, but foreigners? They are put to death or at the minimum life in prison with no chance of parole.
As far as it not making human rights records why should it? They were killed in what can be reported in 2 ways. Police departments here do the same thing to manipulate crime rate numbers.
Again, I state human rights violations are wrong on their face, they don't need to be against queers to be any more or any less wrong.
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