>""If there is a single fundamental difference between the Western and Asian world view, it is the dichotomy between individual freedom and collective welfare,"

>""If there is a single fundamental difference between the Western and Asian world view, it is the dichotomy between individual freedom and collective welfare," said Singapore businessman and former journalist Ho Kwon Ping in an address to lawyers on May 5, the day Fay was caned. "The Western cliché that it would be better for a guilty person to go free than to convict an innocent person is testimony to the importance of the individual. But an Asian perspective may well be that it is better that an innocent person be convicted if the common welfare is protected than for a guilty person to be free to inflict further harm on the community" In an article about caning a us citizen: http://www.corpun.com/awfay9405.htm http://www.corpun.com/awfay9405.htm