Backbone of the society

Fascinating.

This is so interesting, that the entire concept of using drugs has been changed from being a crime to something to be treated. The government helps out in providing treatment without labeling them as criminals, and it's not like it wouldn't work because drug possession and the usage of it is still illegal.
In other words, you aren't made to go to jail for using drugs- you're only given help to get out of the addiction. Ultimately, it becomes your choice whilst the entire business is controlled, to some extent.
One thing I couldn't understand was this: why the national belief in the principle of human dignity translates into that. Or perhaps, there is some other reason. Interesting.. This is only the tip of the ice berg, isn't it?

Even something like capital punishment has the rationale of being against respect for someone's dignity, and thus does not exist.
For a country like Singapore (or United States, as I've read), these are near-impossible concepts that somehow works in other countries but wouldn't work here.
There are a million different ways of doing something, and while it's effective in Portugal, it wouldn't work here in Singapore; for the reason that crime is controlled here through strict enforcement and laws, and the culture is to follow them rules. We know the price, therefore we stay away from it. Of course, this includes the health detriments that drugs bring to people, as well as the stigma and financial aspects of it.
Without free healthcare for all, and a culture of working for most of your life for the sake of a 'worry-less retirement', it is perhaps not possible for us to ever adopt a policy like this.
The context doesn't allow it, and neither does the rest of the system that governs this country.

Still, this reaallllyyy intrigues me- for stuffs such as smoking (though legal) and drugs has been 'demonized', so to speak, here where I live.

Lessons are only getting more and more engaging-
I really do like school; It is only the rigid and mindless adherence to rules that repels me.

Credits to this for my new knowledge.