this is called Virtue signalling, proving he is oh so much more compassionate than other ignorant clods, such as that feisty Jewish carpenter who said pedophiles should be thrown into the sea tied to a millstone.
I actually oppose capital punishment, because it tends to be the poor who end up with that punishment, and of course, sometimes mistakes are made. And there are alternatives:
Jail them for life, throw away the key, no problem.
No problem in affluent modern countries, where you can jail sociopathic murderers for life, but in places where jails are not affordable or where sociopaths can escape if they pay a little bribe, I should note that the result will be vigilante justice, as has happened recently in Mexico (UKGuardian Article), or the pay back murders (paid hits against criminals by families who got tired of waiting for justice) here in the Philippines which the SJW blame on Duterte, not knowing the reason for the hits.
speaking of capital punishment: would that help stop the Fentanyl crisis?
Not for the low level dealers, but for the leaders of the Drug cartels and the Chinese gangsters who are supplying the drug.
the 'experts" say this won't work... but the reason it won't work is because China (and Mexico) are corrupt. A little gift and voila: a "get out of jail free card".
on the other hand, if you actually go after the high level gangsters/"businessmen" who are behind this, and not just execute a few low level people for show, then yes it could work.
Backstory: Xi is trying to get rid of corruption, which is holding back China's economy. Long StrategyPage article on that here.
What would we do without "experts"? We heard the same thing here in the Philipines, that the "war on drugs" wouldn't work: yet the streets are now safer.
Crime went down but murder rate went up, says the headlines. implying that petty crime went down but lots of the more serious crime of killing people was getting worse.
The actual data suggests a different story:
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The nationwide crime rate from July 2016 to June 2018 dropped by 21.48 percent...
Crimes against persons like homicide, physical injuries, and rape also went down, except for murder which saw an increase of ... 1.50 percent during the last two years.
Finally, there is a lot of crazy stuff out there about opioid.
Blaming doctors, and not distinguishing doctors treating pain with high doses versus drug abusers.
The latest is if you give a few opioid type pills to women after having babies to relieve their pain, you are causing a drug epidemic.
But actually the "study" shows 1 percent end up misusing narcotics, in contrast to 5 percent of the overall population who misuse narcotic type medicines.
And although they eliminated anyone who said they had taken opioids in the past 180 days, it wasn't clear if they did a drug screen to check if they were lying, or if they were taking other streetdrugs.
what's wrong with this picture?
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