“The right to speech includes the right to sing. So you can’t stop me from singing.”
“Oh, and you think that Singapore has such a right?”
“It’s still a member of the U.N.”
“Ah. Well, so is Turkmenistan. And Iraq and......”
“So you’re willing to be dragged down to that level?”
“Well, I wouldn’t mind, actually.”
“Why?”
“I rather have one man (on top) complaining to everyone than everyone complaining to one man. It shows the stupidity of humanity.”
I swung around to face this friend of mine. He was an intellectual, and probably had gathered more overall knowledge over the years than myself, but boy was I going to shoot him down.
“You know what? I rather have many people complaining to one guy on top and creating problems, because I know how it’s like to live in a place where it’s legally not allowed to complain. I’m sorry, but living here (in Singapore), you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
