free speech free press

The irony is that while three of us are Communication students, we firmly believe that Singaporeans are not mature enough for free speech, free press. Mature not in the sense of mental maturity, but social and national. We are too young a nation and after all, an incident one too! Our social fabric, made up of various religious and ethnic groups is still fragile. Our country is still young and it needs more time to grow, we cannot afford to have instability in our politics and society. Screw Western standards, we have Asian values. Sometimes, there has to be a sacrifice for little things to achieve more important things first, for the majority of the people in this country. Slow as it is, I believe the government is slowly loosening things up. Look at the amount of online criticism of PAP that Singaporeans are free to click and read about! Sometimes, not everything that is passionate and fervent and critical, is right.