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  • An Uncomplicated Mind
  • July 12, 2013 , 05:14pm

Saving a life is never stupid

Saving a life is never stupid

By Joe Rivera

I’ve just been reading a scathing comment in a social-political forum criticizing the Philippine government’s intervention in the forthcoming execution by China of a Filipino woman caught entering the country with 6.171 kilos of heroin. In China, possession of 50 grams of drugs is punishable by the death penalty, usually carried out through lethal injection.

“Enough of this stupidity. Ignorance of the law does not spare anyone…….and stop spending our money for issues that are meritless,” the commentator wrote.

There are at least three important issues raised in this sardonic comment. One, it is stupid on the part of government to help its citizens caught for a crime, particularly a drug-related offence, committed in a foreign country. Second, the accused cannot plead ignorance of the law which is not a valid excuse. By the way, this issue has never been raised as a defence. And third, the government should not spend public money for issues without merit, such as this one.

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