“But when it applies to you (3 teens)…..”
The three bocherim are very lucky that they were not caught smuggling drugs into Singapore. It has a mandatory death penalty for drug smuggling. Anyone entering Singapore is handed a card that warns of their death penalty for drug traffickers.
Singapore does have one of the lowest crime rates in the world. But had the bocherim been caught smuggling drugs into Singapore, they would already been executed by now. Interestingly, Singapore’s first Prime Minister under self-government was a Jew, David Marshall. He was also a legendary criminal defense attorney whose success caused successor Lee Kuan Yew to abolish jury trials! Marshall’s political party is still in existence, and supports elimination of mandatory sentences, but it has no influence as Singapore has been for years effectively a one party state.