Multiple Canadians have been executed by China this year, Ottawa says

Well, I can't imagine that happening in The Netherlands (Amsterdam) any time soon.

in all cases?

I knew a guy who got tweens hooked on crack, for fun..

He's dead, now, but sometimes one has to wonder if there shouldn't be more-immediate, harsher, enforcement, for some crimes..

( I'm considering the difference between clean-room principles, vs actual-on-the-ground situations, involving real fucked-up-human-reality: sometimes harsh correction seems to be required.

I know that now there are people who are not allowed to leave prison because they're too-much threat to the population, in some places..

also, it depends on one's culture, doesn't it?

In the West, maybe some drugs are culturally OK, & others are not..

& in other cultures, the configuration is different..

We seriously hold that Western moral-assumptions are universal, still?

Has our "White ego" or "British Empire ego", or whatever it ought be called, still so much "centrality" that it cannot understand self-determination of other-cultures?

I'm only using the British Empire example because it was the empire before the US Empire, btw.

I hold that executing people for drug-trafficking is daft .. but then I read about the gang-ruled portions of Mexico .. and wonder .. how can trafficking be dis-entangled from all the other-crimes involved in organized-crime?? )

_ /\ _