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It's okay if it's not worth it for you, but do you think there could be any significantly sized group of people that it could be worth it for? If so, perhaps th
by jfoster 11y ago
It's okay if it's not worth it for you, but do you think there could be any significantly sized group of people that it could be worth it for? If so, perhaps there is good reason for Singapore to have this approach. The alternative is trying to force everyone in the world to live the way you want to.
You don't have to want to live in Singapore, but you should accept that other people might want to.
- gerbilly 11y agoBut did they really chose to live that way or did the government institutions just kind of lag behind the economic progress? Economic progress excuses many sins. You see a similar thing in China. Human rights abuses are frequently minimized as long as there is economic growth. Many cultures used torture and hanging and all sorts of extreme and cruel punishments. Even the paragons of peaceful resistance did: the Tibetans. But many cultures chose to outgrow such practices. I'd argue that: 1) The Singapore people never _chose_ to live this way, that it's an accident of history, and that economic growth keeps most people from complaining about it. 2) given the control of the press and the draconian government they couldn't easily chose to live differently now. We should be wary of imitating them, because it would be very hard to dismantle a system like that once it has been installed.