Great Singapore Organ Sale? Legalisation of Organ Trading

This article is a contribution by one of The Inquistor’s associates, its appearance on this blog does not signify assent to all the points within by any of the contributors to this blog, but nonetheless, it is here because of its instrinsic merits and potential for discussion.

By the way, The Inquisitor apologises for not posting for sometime, because His Eminence has taken up a relief teaching job at a school and let’s just say that the lack of permission to burn any of his screaming kids in class at the stake renders his task a few notches more exhausting.

Great Singapore Organ Sale? Legalisation of Organ Trading

by Joshua Woo

 

Join PAP?

I shall be speaking in my actual first person for this post instead of assuming my Inquisitor persona. I recently applied, with Pirapong, to join the YoungPAP. They have sent me a reply to go to their open house to confirm my membership. However I am hesistating,

 

Some Hilarious Authoritarian Quotes

The reaction of the Israeli Knesset member Itzhak Ben-Aharon (United Workers Party - a faction of the Labour Party) to the news in 1977 that Menahem Begin’s Likud party had won the election, overthrowing 29 years of left-wing hegemony.

“If that is the will of the people, then we need to change the people.”

 

The Utopian and The Realist

Suppose there is this person, A, who tells another person B, that he ought to take up rugby. A goes on to explain the goods of taking up rugby and its benefits. Then A, strangely enough, tells B that if B does not take up rugby, B will be living a deficient sort of life and is not living out his full potential. Let’s say we have another person, C, who knows B better than A, and advises B to take up piano instead, because C knows that B is musically talented (maybe he is able to learn the keyboard quickly) and loves classical music. Then C goes on to tell B that if B does not take up piano, then B will be not be living an as worthy life as he could have. No prizes guessing who the utopian and who the realist is.

 

The Essence of Conservatism

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS

 

Strong Governments more important than Civil Liberty for Economy

His Eminence wishes to draw his fair readers to this Channel News Asia report of a speech given by our Minister Mentor regarding the true prerequisites of economic growth and stability.

 

Why Governments should not Be Accountable to People: Plato’s Argument Applied

P recently spoke to His Eminence about him writing to the minister of trade about certain remarks he made in parliament about the GST hike tax. P was bitching about what the government should do with their huge reserves, etc. His Eminence then pointed out to P that the government might have certain economic reasons for keeping such a huge reserve which us non-economically trained people may not understand. (Maybe its to maintain currency integrity or interest rates? His Eminence does not know) His Eminence went on to point out that P does not have the least exposure in economics and that His Eminence Himself rarely comments on the economic policies of the government as he himself is also not economically trained. (Inspite of the fact that His Eminence’s humbler alter ego got an A for his ‘A’ level economics, *modest cough*)

 

How the PAP can preserve power even if they lost the elections

His Eminence was sharing a scheme with his friends as to what he would do if he was a law maker in the PAP controlled party and was certain that his party would surely lose control of the government to the opposition due to the tide of discontent

 

Some 377A anti-homosexual law objections considered

His Eminence has decided to examine some of the common objections against the 377a and demonstrate why they do not hold water. No doubt this is to reopen a can of worms, but what the heck, it is an important issue anyway, and for too long, we have only heard the voices of liberals, its time for the voice of the conservatives to be heard.

 

doing it better

In the recent handling of the subprime crisis, I’d say our government takes the cake. Seriously.

In the US it took a real blowup of the problem to bring the government in. The Fed Reserve tried its best (bless you, Ben Bernanke), but the policies that were put in place by Alan Greenspan (the Maestro) in those years he was in office couldn’t be undone so fast. Then there was the whole thing about the Maestro disavowing any responsibility for this mess the US had ended up in, and blaming it all on the other parties involved. Congress has also been suggesting all sorts of things, some that would work, and some that wouldn’t. Frankly, the introduction of any regulation may solve one problem, but it always brings with it other problems. Enron brought about Sarbanes Ox, which solved misvaluing, but which made credit markets ever more jittery these days through no fault of the loan issuers.