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Many people made the same argument to Lee Kuan Yew when he was alive. His response: "Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a
by cs702 3y ago
Many people made the same argument to Lee Kuan Yew when he was alive. His response: "Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts."[a]
[a] https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/187723.Lee_Kuan_Yew https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/187723.Lee_Kuan_Yew
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThat explains a lot if he saw his constituents as little more than dogs to be beaten and trained.
- nataliste 3y agoSingapore has an HDI of .939, twelfth highest in the world, comparable to Germany and the Netherlands. They began to climb those heights since 1965 since Lee Kuan Yew took over. Have you considered that your pithy emotional pleading is wrong and frankly demeaning to the common discursive space? The strategy worked, regardless of it being considered demeaning.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoI’d love for you to reference a study showing a relationship between caning and hanging for nonviolent offenses and HDI. That would at least support your argument.