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peak civilization is homeless westerners doing drugs on the streets/in parks

Since you're putting up a false dichotomy, I still think having homeless people on the street doing drugs is superior to executing people for having 1 kg of plant material that is legal in a good part of the world.

And a lot of people will disagree with you.

There are a lot of people in the US who want to hunt the homeless for sport but that doesn't make them right.

Well people that put "lack of homeless doing drugs" over a human life would be wrong.

What of the human lives the drug dealer ruins over his lifetime? Reality doesn't conform to simplifications of the level you're trying to pull here.

At least in the US, you could kill as many people as you wanted and it wouldn't solve the problem, you'd just be guilty of committing a holocaust.

Singapore has a lot of issues beyond just their drug laws. Their entire legal system is one of the most broken of any developed nation. Being able to city plan OK doesn't excuse that.

ok singapore isnt perfect

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