A passage to death?
Social progress is achieved by development of individuals, not by a Government selecting who is to die. Eugenics has a lot in common with Execution. It is a Government deciding who has the "privilege" of life, ahead of creating conditions to "improve the general quality of life for everyone". It is the contradiction - by selecting the right people to die - a Government could "improve society". Eugenics is systematic racial selection for a similar purpose and effect. How can one separate the two? A system of justice? Well perhaps, but is that not worshiping a mental process of man, rather the the Divine that dispenses (justice). As if justice were actually a tangible commodity and there were a market for it? Singapore is exporting the death penalty. Singapore executes drug couriers who fly with via Singapore, whether they set foot in the Capital Punishment (legal) territory or not.
Singapore Airlines may reconsider marketing in drug based economies for moral reasons. Are they facilitating state sponsored entrapment? Or is this an act of war to take foreign nationals and execute them effectively as prisoners of [the] war (on drugs)?
That the Australian Government of the day does not mind is an act of selection - we do not want drug dealers as Australian citizens. People keep asking what if the man's name was Shane Warne (not the famous cricketer - but if that were his name) - the Australian voter may give a care.
Should flights be banned by the UN from drug kingdoms? That would be quite unfair to the majority of honest travellers! But, is it moral for Singapore to effectively extend its Capital punishment laws internationally with it's name on a public transport passageway (legally and effectively not Singporean soil) and so by casting a net providing routes into places a drug courier goes - knowing that couriers will be exposed to the CP laws of that country even if they are not nationals of that country and have never legally entered the country?
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