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Your question is irrelevant to the discussion. The question here is what is the right punishment for a crime (it is alright for different crimes to have different punishments)? Do you think an eye for an eye kind of justice is right? In this particular case, it is not even an eye for an eye as...

I stick to my stance that no humans should have the right to decide whether another person should live or die. You may say I will feel differently if someone close to me was a victim but it does not change my view that two wrongs do not make a right. When people tell me examples like these, it...

Because the drug addicts are responsible for their own lives as well. How many people here are speaking up for gambling addicts and those families destroyed by a gambling addiction? You would be painting the gambling addict as a stupid fool instead of pushing for the gambling operators to face...

I am firmly against the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking for the simple reason that drug addicts are partly responsible for their own situation. If you are stupid enough to take drugs (despite all the warnings about the dangers), you deserve to have a screwed-up life. There are all...

The real Zorro would never use Storm Troopers from the Empire. Hope that should tell you something. :)

This must be the greatest joke of the century. Actual meaning: One, to the employers, especially MNCs, they don't care about the nationality of the employees during a downturn. They will cut whoever is costing them more (CPF and NS). Managers (whether foreign or local) are also more likely to...

If the business owners are so good, they should become MNCs and then they can source for their labour from elsewhere. We will see if they can still survive when they can't operate under the protection of the benign SG environment. No self-respecting people will allow their government to...

There are hordes of them here as well. Don't understand why people still want to migrate when they have to face so many hostile natives.

If it is open to the general public, I predict the locations will be swamped with foreigners, crowding out the SGreans, who will be put off by that. In the end, it will just be free viewing for foreigners. Gone are the days when you can have a safe environment for family entertainment.

You are ignoring an important difference. You need a good grounding in Maths and Science if you decide to study advanced subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computing, etc later. The only reason you need a good grounding in a second language is if you are going to study it in an advanced...

You are right. Now that you have reminded me, the truth is that despite all the years of learning Chinese, the average Chinese SGrean's standard of Chinese is like that of a primary school student when compared to a Taiwanese because what we were taught was lacking in many cultural and...

Language defines the identity of the nation. Without knowing who we are and where we are going, we can't solve other problems easily and completely.

Well said. I hated Chinese classes in school. It was only the computer games, kungfu novels, classics like ROTK and comics that made me love the language so much in my late teens when passing Chinese was no longer a pressing requirement.

I have absolutely no idea what you are arguing about. I will not be replying to your post.

I don't understand what you are saying. You said that HK is very eager to learn Mandarin and now you are saying that HKers want to keep its own identity. Cantonese is simply a dialect of Chinese, same as Mandarin. English is totally different to Chinese. It is certainly a convenient...

I am getting really tired of explaining this. I have no problems with learning multiple languages. But the reality today is that many SGreans are struggling with Chinese. All you need to answer is this: Are you willing to say that if you do not score well enough in Chinese (or another second...

English was chosen because no other language would be acceptable to all races. The fact that it helped us economically is simply a convenient secondary side-effect. HK is part of PRC. Are you suggesting we should also be part of PRC? Your kind of thinking is exactly why SG has no soul. We are...

I would certainly be very interested to see how you are going to implement another language besides English as the national lnanguage. Pray tell us which language you prefer to be the national language.

There is no contradiction. If you are making a living in China, by all means, make sure you have a good command of the language. What I am saying is, if I am working in SG, why should a PRC come and tell me that I am second-class because I can't speak Chinese well. If I have to work in China...

You are certainly not getting my point. I disagree with your plan. English has to be the first and national language in SG. I would certainly approve of all Chinese learning Chinese/Mandarin. What I want to be eradicated is the requirement that everyone must have a good command of the second...