You're living in an Asian society not some white trash libertarian country where drugs and public sex is considered acceptable.
In an Asian society, you are taught respect for your elders and for those in positions of authority.
When you're young, you have to listen to your parents and they decide what is good for you.
When you go to school, you have to listen to your teachers and obey them.
When you're an adult member of society, you now have to obey your leaders and accept their superior wisdom. That is the purpose of leadership.
However, if you think that your leaders are lacking in any manner or form, you are perfectly entitled to follow due process in order to become a leader yourself. You can then make decisions for others.
Democracy does not mean that you can do what you like. It simply means that leadership is decided by an electoral process where all citizens have a vote.
What you have posted largely points to a kind of social behaviour that is largely fading in modern day society. And this fading of social values is exactly what pappies might call "growth and productivity".
Being filial to one's parents is a largely Asian value, being passed down from generations.. but here.. there is a LAW that penalises people who DO NOT look after their parents. That has nothing to do with a democracy.. which is the way a country is governed.
Showing respect to your leaders is also an old traditional passe'.. crumbled once we advance and become globally connected and bringing in more foreigners and accepting and adopting "advanced models of thought and progress" to supposedly make things more efficient.
Being a more democratic society and a more democratic country doesn't mean that the old ways are lost, or kept. IMHO, that is up to the people to decide.. not for the govt. to try to "control" or "tamper" with. If people feel that certain things should be kept and passed on to later generations.. then why not?
The problem here is not traditional values but of the SINGLE RIGHT one has of being able to decide for themselves, what they can read, view, listen to on the internet.. without obstruction, and without intervention.
If you were to say that minor below a certain age, let's say 16, should be kept at bay of certain content.. then I am most inclined to agree with you.
However, this licensing thingy is targeted at EVERYONE.. regardless of age, language or religion.. it hits ALL!!
Whether you are 21, 35 or 50, you will be affected, as this licensing thing will do it's best to make ALL CONTENT be the "right thing" that you can have access to. The question is, when will they go overboard or go crazy?
The saying goes, "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.". If you allow someone to start to bully you and take things away from you and you don't do anything.. you are indirectly encouraging that someone to continue to pick on you.. and in time, take even more away from you, as they get more brazen and embolden in their ways.
If this licensing thing is allowed to stay, who knows what else will come next? Do we want that to happen?
Prevention is better than cure. So, we should heed this saying, and prevent things from happening, rather than fixing things when they go bad, no??
