Via Macam-Macam: it’s one thing for me to avoid a moral judgment in a philosophical discussion about how many years a tourist, who is most likely innocent of smuggling drugs, should be jailed.
But it’s quite another thing when it comes to a comparison. Why does a convicted transnational pot smuggler get twenty years when two accomplices to deadly terrorism get just four ?
That makes about as much sense as America’s war on drugs. Way to go Jakarta—somehow I don’t think this will do much to stop the steadily decline in tourism to Indonesia. Pity Bali.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
August 8, 2005
6:24 pm