[lbo-talk] Singapore

[Wojtek S]

58 countries OUTSIDE EU is not chopped liver. Add to it 35 that have
death penalty on the books so technically they can use if they so
choose - this makes 93 countries.  There are about 165 countries
outside EU, so these 93 countries represent the majority (56 percent).

I hate to quibble but the vehemence with which liberal approach the
death penalty issue strikes me as rather irrational.  There are far
more preventable deaths from other causes, traffic accidents,
industrial accidents, crime, inadequate health care inadequate
nutrition - to name a few, but among these death penalty occupies the
center stage of the liberal attention.  That is like saving the roses
when the house is on fire.  Why the fate of a few criminals commands
so much liberal attention?

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."