freediver wrote on Dec 27
th, 2013 at 8:26am:
Quote:So what should this be about then?
How about sucking it up and being objective?
Thats not really saying anything FD. Is calling them "little nazis" and questioning why someone wouldn't see them as the same threat as the imperial Japanese during WWII your idea of being objective?
As I keep saying, I'm not making excuses, merely looking for an explanation for why their responses to these issues are so at odds with their demonstrated behaviour? Why isn't there, and never has been anything resembling a serious public debate on this issue in Malaysia - since the majority of the Malay population supposedly want these punishments?
Quote:Remember, Malaysia also has serious problems with Islamic extremism and terrorism.
No, really they don't. Can you cite a single instance of terrorism in Malaysia since the communist insurgency which ended in 1960?
Good grief, this has to be your all time most stupid statement FD - and thats
really saying something.
Quote:Who is to say there isn't? Do you expect me to take your word for it
Thats ridiculous. You don't have to trust my word for it, even though I follow Malaysian politics closely and know for a fact you are so far off the mark its not funny - you just need to produce some evidence that it is happening. Its not called "
public debate" for nothing. If there was a public debate going on, you would be able to find some record of it happening.
Quote:I find it very hard to believe that in a democracy where the population is split nearly 50-50 on an issue that there would be no debate on it.
When we hear hoofbeats, we can either scratch our heads and wonder where all the zebras are, or we can go with the obvious and put it down to horses. When there is no sign of a public debate going on about a particular issue, it generally means that it is not a hot issue that people particularly care about.
People can act all principled on an issue they know only from stories, and know will never have any chance of becoming implemented in their society. But like all these things, if and when a serious debate actually arises, and the issue changes from abstract to "actual possibility", public opinion will change dramatically.
Quote:You are trying to say it is not a problem every time you insist that these people do not actually think what they say they think
Not true. Refusing to label them as "little nazis" is not saying its still not a problem.