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The current buzz on the government's broadened immigration policy and the
renewed attempts to coerce overseas Singaporeans to return and play their
roles in contributing to the economy and serving the people has generated
much excitementLet us re-visit a famous story from Aesop's fables which contains a deep
moral worthy of deliberation in the context of the debate
A Goatherd was tending his goats out at pasturewhen he saw a number of wild goats approach and mingle with his flock.
At the end of the day, he drove them home and put them all into the pen
together.
Next day the weather was so bad that he could not take them out as usual,so he kept them at home in the pen, and fed them there.
He only gave his own goats enough food to keep them from starving, but he gave the wild goats as much as they could eat and more,
for he was very anxious for them to stay,
and he thought that if he fed them well they wouldn't want to leave him.
When the weather improved, he took them all out to pasture again.
But no sooner had they got near the hills than
the wild goats broke away from the flock and scampered off.
The Goatherd was very much disgusted at this, and loudly abused them for
their ingratitude.
" Rascals ! " he cried, " to run away like that after the way I've treated
you ! "
Hearing this, one of them turned round and said,
" Oh, yes, you treated us all right ----- too well, in fact.
It
was just that that put us on our guard.
If you treat newcomers like ourselves so much better than your own flock,
it's more than likely that*
if another lot of strange goats should come along, you would in the same
manner prefer them to us,
and we would be neglected. "
Moral :
*Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones *
* *
*Those who neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones are rightly
served if they lose both *
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