Integrated Resorts

About issues of the new Integrated Resorts (IR) in Singapore, I agree with PM Lee to a large extent and I think that having Integrated Resorts is suitable in Singapore. I think that IR can help Singapore’s economy and make Singapore have more benefits in the global competition.

Before the project of IR is confirmed, Singapore’s tourism industry was in a serious situation. It faced the intense competition of some other famous cities in south-east Asia, such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, even from Malaysia. Those cities have legalized the casinos. Facing this condition, an IR may help Singapore’s tourism industry.

IR is an integrated project, which contains hotels, restaurants, shopping center, theater, casino and so on. With so many corporations inside, IR can provide many jobs for Singaporeans. Besides, IR can attract more people coming to Singapore. Therefore, Singapore’s tourism industry may be developed and the governments may get more profits. Singapore is a small country and the tourism industry is very important to Singapore and it must always keep competitive. Thus the IR is very important in the long run.

However, there are many criticisms about this project, which is mainly about the casino in IR. People concern that with a legal casino in Singapore, the ethical systems might be broken and the casino can take crisis to the families and societies. With this opinion, they think IR can take bad effects and should be forbidden. However, in my contest, IR does not mean casino but contains casino. It may take some bad effects of the casino, but it does not mean the bad effects are more than the good effects. Besides, the time is leaping forward; we must change with the global situation to always keep competitive but does not be constricted by the traditional ideas. Otherwise, we may fail in the competition with the other countries, IR is good issue for us to consider. IR can help us in many ways. The good effects are more than its shortage. We should not forbid it just because of the casino. Besides, we may try to think of the methods to solve the problems of the casino.

About the social repercussions of the IR, I think that we can get the solutions. About the issues of concerning the Singaporeans to indulge in casino gambling, I think that we can have several steps to keep Singaporeans from the gambling. Firstly, the government can restrict the number of the Singaporeans in casino so that there would nor be too many Singaporeans gambling in the casino. Secondly, there should be a compulsory and high entrance fee for the Singaporeans. Therefore, Singaporeans have to think about the cost of entering the casino. Besides, if they win the money by gambling, they must give a large part of the money to the country as tax. With these several steps, Singaporeans may compare the cost and risk with the profits of gambling in the casino. Then they may not like entering the casino.

About the issues of the social impacts of the undesirable activities causing by gambling such as money laundering and loan shark, I think that we should have more guards in the casino, even the policeman. About money laundering, I think that the casino should cooperate with the police. Every person must show their ID card or passport to the staffs of the casino before they enter. This may prevent the criminals to enter the casino. Besides, the people in the casino must use the cash to gamble. Credit is not allowed. Then, the people cannot have debt even though they lose money.

Therefore, about the social effects of the IR, I agree with PM Lee to a large extent to have IRs in Singapore. About the social impacts of the casino, we have different methods to deal with the problem. We may see the effects after the IR is used.

National Service – How can this be amended or improved further to alleviate the problem of dodging

National service is an inportant period and mission for the males of Singapore citizens. It is the compulsory conscription in Singapore of all male Singaporean citizens and second-generation permanent residents upon reaching the age of 18. The national service is important for the millitary of Singapore. National service makes sure the Singapore’s defence. It also provides an idea that Singaporeans should protect their own country. However, national service also faces challenges from the people. It is not surprising that some people avoid the national service. Thus, I think that the national service should be improved or reformed in some ways.

Before, we think about how to improve national service, we should be sure that national service is very important to the nation’s defence, thus it should not be avoided. Besides, we should consider carefully what reasons make people dodge national service. I think that there are two main reasons. Some people dodge national service because they fear the tough life in the army. Some others dodge national service because of their study.

About the first problem, I think that the way to solve this question is very easy. If people fear the tough life in the army. We can change and improve the environment of the troops and thus can serve the soldies a better place to spend in the 2 years. This can make people fear less about the national service. The time is changing, we do not need to pursue the tough place for soldiers to live in. However, the army life still has challenges to the soldiers. They must get different exercise to become a real soldier from a simple man. This process cannot be cancelled. If the people stll cannot stand for these things, this means they still want to dodge the national service. We must give those people punishment. The people who avoided national service may be fined or give up the Singapore nationality. We can let those people fear punishment more than the national service. Therefore, the good environment and punishment for the people who dodge the national service can solve the problem of dodging in some ways.

However, I think that the second problem is harder to solveand much more controversial. The study affects some people’s national service in some ways. When the man become 18 years old, they just graduate from junior college and some people will go for university and even for higher degrees. If they go for their national service, this means there is a pause on the career of their study. They have to go to the university over 2 years after they graduate from junior college. This pause will affect their study. Some students may not like to drop their study for national service. If some students go abroad for university. They would even drop their nationlity because of the punishment of dodging national service. This also causes many local talents abroad and cannot return to Singapore.Actually, this problem is harder to solve and more controversial. In some ways, we may think that national service is too important, so every one have the obligation to have no matter having what reasons. However, in the other hands, we may feel pity about the pause on the study and talents abroad. Thus, we must take a good way to make sure both sides’ interests.

I think that, for students who want to continue their study, we can give them special treat. The national service in the army is too long for them. They cannot afford 2 years’ time. Therfore, we can train them in short time and let them get the sodliers’ skills in the several months’ training. They do not stay in the barracks. To make sure they get the skills of soldiers, we can let them get training in their holidays. In this way, even though they are not in the army, they can stll behave like a soldier and in the special time, they can also protect their country. For those who go abroad, they usually drop their nationality. However, if they return to Singapore and are the citizens of Singapore, they must serve an organisation of the government in Singapore to contribute the nations development. In this way, the have the national service in another ways.

Therefore, we have different ways to solve this problems to different kinds of people with different reasons to dodge national service. Moreover, I think that when government improves and reforms the national service, government must be both strict and reasonable

Free will’s gambling

Because of the debate on the casino in Singapore, the issues are transmitted to the paternalism of the Singapore goverments. It is obviously that this issue is mainly about the freedom and liberty in individuals and the politics with the control of the goverment. People may think that the government is like a nanny or parent looking after the kids, but lack of the freedom. I think that the paternalism is not necessarily undisirable. In some ways, the paternalism of the government is good to a country and its people. Besides, I think that paternalism is not paradoxical with liberty.

About the social contract, every people get their own rights, but different people and organisations may have different interests. When their intersts conflict each other, the social problems may be caused. Therfore, an organisation with power may be used to regulate the conflicts to achieve a balance, than make sure people’s rights. Thus, the government is needed. With this issue, we are sure that the government should control the condition like parents. Sometimes, the government may not achieve some people’s demands because of the majority or the social repercussions. However, this is necessary. Just like the casino peoblems, some people may like to have a casino in Singapore but the government may think about the effects of the casino and contrast between the bebefits and bad effects and then disagree about this decision. To determine the main direction of the nation is the job of the government. When deciding the issues like the casino, the patanarlism is necessary.

Besides, paternalism is not totally opposite the liberty and liberty is also not anarchism. Government’s paternalism actually helps the people make sure their rights and benefits. If the liberty is to let the people have their own plan of life, we can suppose what the society will be like. For example, about the casino, some people says that they want casino and this is their life’s choice. Casino is a place to gamble which can make home broken, and is a kind of social problems. If their demand is achieved, we may find that when they get some freedom, they also lose some rights. They will lose the normal life. They will lose their development. This is not what liberty is supposed to do. Like the pornography, smuggling and drugs, these kind of things should be forbiden. Thus, paternalism should be used at this time. Without the paternalism, we may not be sure the society’s direction. To achieve the hamony of the society, the paternalism is also not entirely undisirable.

Therefore, we know the paternalism’s importance and the free will’s sometimes bad effects in some ways. The free will is just like the gambling in the casino. It may take the benefits sometimes, but it also has large risks. It may take bad effects and the society may be affected. At that tine, the paternalism should be used toward the issues which may drive the nation to the wrong direction. The government also should act like parents in the home to teach and lead the people to the right way and make sure the development

How advertising informs to our benefit

Advertisements are an important part in the process of business nowadays. The purpose of advertising is to serve the basic information and adventages of the merchandise to attract the consumers. A good adventages can get good effects and take large bebefits. According to the passage given, I do not very agree on the views of the author.

The author thinks that advertisements carry the information with the products so that the products can be sold with the information. Actually, this is true. The advertisements can bring the information, but we cannot simply say that this can take us benefits. We must firstly consider the information. Usually, the information ‘s credibility is necessary to be considered. When businessmen use the advertisements to help sell the products, the information taken by the advertisements is usually about the adventages and good effects of the products. The advertisements usually avoid the bad effects and the shortage of the products. The advertisements of medicine and cigarette are good examples. Medicines usually have the side effects. However, in the advertisements, the side effects are not shown to the consumers. Therefore, the consumers cannot get a complete information. About the advertisements of the cigarette, the shortage is more obvious.
Smoking is harmful to the body. However, the businesemen want to sell the products better, so they have to avoid this point or say that smoking is not harmful. The results are that the consumers do not get enough information or are cheated. Therfore, although consumers can get information from the advertisements, the incomplete or false information still can take the results that consumers are disppointed about the products after paying the money. Thus, consumers actually do not get benefits.

Besides, consumers cannot get the information freely. Using advertisements costs more money so that the cost of the products is improved and the price must also be improved. Therefore, when the consumers use the information, they actually cost more to buy the products. The benefits of consumers are lowed.

However, the advertisements’ information can also take the consumers benefits. The advertisements can take additional information to consumers. Advertisements’ additional information can help us judge other products’ shortage. For example, the advertisements of the toothpastes usually use some scientific research to show the adventage of the products. When we get the information, we can know the bad effects of the sugar. This is good to the consumers.

About the point of the price-advertising, in some ways, it can help the consumers because of the lower price, but because of the use of advertisements, the cost actually is improved. Thus the pay of the consumers is improved, but because of the increasing number of consumers, the businesemen still can make sure their profits. Besides, we still cannot sure if the price is reasonable even if the price becomes lower. Therfore, we cannot say this take a lot of benefits.

According to the analysation, I agree with the author to a small extent.

About the impact of the honesty and integrity, I think these are needed to be considered about some products such as cigarette and medicine, because these kinds of products have side effects and can conflict with company’s bottomline. Thus, the honesty and integrity about these kinds of products are more important. Therfore, the company must try to increase the extent of true and complete information. If I designed an advertisements about cigarette, I may mention that the harm of the smoking and emphasis the amount of smoking so that the consumers can be warned about the harmth but also the products can be sold.

Science: a Menace to Civilisation?

Before we talk about the question about whether the science is a menace to civilisation, I think that we should firstly give a definition to the civilisation. In my context, civilisation means the stage of human social development. We know that the development of the human society is with the development of the science and technology and the tools. Therefore, the science is the basis of the civilisation, how can we say that science is a menace to civilisation? Thus, I think that it is unfair to denounce civilisation as such.

From the ancient time, the science took the human beings a lot of benefits. The science about how to use fire, how to make tools makes people leave the time of savage. The science in agriculture takes humans into the agricultural civilisation. Most importantly, it makes the ancient people survive from the grim environment. Without science, we cannot even survive. It is more impossible that civilisation can development without science. Besides, when we think about the civilisation, we usually think of the Egyptian pyramids, the palace of the old kingdoms or the skyscrapers of the modern cities. Those elements of the civilisation all come from science. Thus, we can find that science contribute to the civilisation but not menace it.

After the science makes human beings live in the earth, it continues making the societies developing and making the life of humans better. As the time passes, many new things are invented with the help of the science such as trains, planes, lights, telephones. Those inventions solve many problems in the human life and supply a lot of convenience to the societies. Especially the development in the medical science conquers many diseases and makes sure human beings have a healthier life. Therefore, the science accelerates the development of civilisation.

Most importantly, the science help the civilisation objectively by improve the level of people’s ideas. As the science develops and helps in the societies, people gradually realize and control the science. Meanwhile, humans realize the world, environment and themselves more. They can answer many questions in the life with the science but not with the theology, thus science lead people away from the superstition. For example, Darwin’s theory about the humans’ ancestors and natural selections makes a large leap in people’s thought about the world; people also get rid of the control of the religion. The civilisation can go on developing. Besides, as the science develops, the humans get more and more education. Their thoughts can become more and more active. The ability of thinking can liberate people from the pressure in the thoughts. The development in politics also appears such as the democracy, social contrast. Therefore, when there is an obstacle in the road of the civilisation, science can always help people solve it.

But some people may think that science should be responsible for the destruction in the human society and the exploitation in the environment. But I think that the destruction in the human societies such the threats of the nuclear weapon, the chemical and biological weapons and more frightening things are not directly caused by the science. When a theory or an invention of science appears, the purpose is good. But some people do not use the science properly, thus cause so many problems. As for the exploitation of the environment, I think it is caused by the greedy and ignorant of humans. The humans’ ignorant and greedy make people exploit the environment improperly. Thus many destruction and waste appears. Now we can only use science to conquer and remedy the faults made by humans.

Therefore, we can find that science as the basis of the civilisation, contributes a lot to the human civilisation, but not a menace. Thus I think it is unfair to denounce science as the menace to the civilisation.

What is the real substance of pornography and how should we treat those materials?

What is the real substance of pornography and how should we treat those materials?

Pornography is a controversial and serious problem. There are mainly two points of views about it. Some people think that it should be objected and we should form a stricter censorship. The new view is that pornography does not do anything wrong, and the pornography is just an expression about the sexual activities and even helpful in some ways. In my opinion, pornography is ‘morally objected’ and we should assert the censorship of pornography.

I think that before we talk about this question, we should firstly give the pornography a definition Pornography is materials about sexual activities, maybe movies, books, comics, pictures. It is used to stimulate people’s sexual excitement. The main purpose of pornography is on financial. The producer of pornography use male’s sexual fantasies to get profits. Most seriously, pornography has many bad effects on the society and the people.

The pornography is not good to the audience, especially the teenagers. These kinds of materials are very bad to the development of the teenagers. When the pornography is produced, no one knows who will be the audience. There are also many different ways to transmit the pornography, for example, now the pornography can be widely found on the internet. Through those ways, especially on the internet, the teenagers can watch and be affected by the pornography. The teenagers are still in the process of growing. They have not got the mature thoughts. So they are more easily affected. Watching this kind of blue materials can affect their whole life. Thus, the teenagers are the gravest victims. After watching the pornography, they may indulge in the content of the pornography. The content of the pornography can make people imitate. Thus, young people can do many wrong things and grow in bad direction. The effect of the blue materials even can make them break the law and do bad things, such as raping. Besides, it is unquestionable that the pornography only shows the pleasant about the sexual activities, but without any other element such as mental love, social ethics and responsibilities. All the content of the pornography is nearly impossible in the real life. So watching the pornography, people may get a kind of sexual illusions which is nearly impossible to happen in the real life. They may lose in a false sexual world. All these bad effects can make them become an mentally unhealthy person. If the citizens, especially the teenagers become like that, we all know what will happen to the society.

Moreover, the pornography also does not respect human rights, especially women’s human rights. In the pornography, woman is used as a sexual tool for males’ sexual fantasy. But in fact, female as a part of the society, they make a lot of contribution to the society. Their use is not only on the sexuality. Giving such a role to the female in the pornography does totally not respect their human rights and even break their social outside appearance. This wrong ideas may be transmitted into people’s brain and make their thoughts very shallow. Now we live in a modern world that male and female are in the same level, these kinds of wrong ideas may decelerate the societies’ development. This condition also reflects that the pornography is truly ‘morally objected’.
But the new ideas on the pornography show that the pornography is helpful to those shy, unattractive and disabled people to satisfy their sexual fantasies on vision and without any mistakes. In my context, this point of view is totally absurd. This view says that the pornography helps them satisfy their sexual fantasies. But the way is very harmful. During the process they enjoy themselves, they actually get harm mentally. The way does not solve the problem but take more bad effects. Besides, the way is with the cost of infringing the human rights. We have also found so many bad effects above, how the pornography is without any mistake. Thus, I think that pornography is ‘morally objected’ and we should assert the censorship to prevent it from harming the world

Regulation of political commentary on the Internet in Singapore

Regulation of political commentary on the Internet in Singapore

Modern technology make it possible to give political comments on the internet. But if it is good and suitable togive political comments to the government through the Internet in Singapore? People may have different ideas about this things. But I think that it is good to use internet to show political ideas. And the governments should not stop political commentary on the Internet in Singapore. I think that this is good to the goverments and can make citizens more active and give good ideas to the government and country.

We all know that the Internet is good and large stage to supply a wonderful place to make people talk about their own ideas and comments. So Internet is good place to let people talk about the political questions.

Not all the citizens are work in the government and can talk about the political questions in the government. But they still have their own ideas about the politics and countries. On the Internet, people can talk about this kind of questions in an informal way. But this kind of conversation and advices are with a lot of values. The political commentary can give the governors some ideas and advice of the commen citizens. Those comments reflect the people’s need. So these are good to the country’s development. When some new regulations are promulgated, the governments can get the feedbacks from people through the Internet to observe if the regilations are good to people. People can also find some corruption and give advices to the leaders . For sometimes the governments cannot find out their own shortages, but the people can. So the Internet provides a space for the citizens to comment on and supervise the governments.

Secondly, the Internet can make the citizens more active. The citizens are the basic part of the society. And the citizens have the rights and freedom on speechs and commentary. After the Internet provides the stage, people can talk about their own thoughts. This makes the people take part in the politics and makes people more active in politics. More people take part in the discussion, more ideas will be heard about. When the government meets troubles, it can also ask the way to solve it from the citizens. So actually more people take part in the ‘governments’ with the Intermet. And so many people’s power can accelerate the country’s development. The people can also be more unite. This is especially important in the multi-cultural country like Singapore.

But some people or governors may be afraid that there will be many rubbish information and advices. I think that this kind of things cannot be avoided for the internet is an open and large area. But contrast with the benefits, the shortages are very tiny.

After the analysation, we can find that the political commentary is very important and useful to the government and country. It can make the governments know more about itself, make more people take part in the politics. It also supply a place for advices and supervise. Besides, it makes citizens more active and gather people’s power. All these can make the country develop faster and make people get more benefits. So I think that the political commentary on the Internet is very important and should not be prevented.