Luffy ~ to become King of the Pirates
Zoro ~ to become the best swordsman in the world
Nami ~ to draw a map of the world
Usopp ~ to become truly a brave sea warrior
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Chopper ~ to find a cure for all diseases
Robin ~ to find the true history
Singer believes that freedom of expression is essential to any democracy and therefore should not be limited. On the other hand, Szilagyi believes that more focus should be placed on social responsibility.
In the context of Singapore’s multi-racial society, where there is cultural and religious pluralism, which author’s view do you think should be adopted?
Write a response of at least 300 words and 2 content paragraphs, and include materials from both articles as well as your own knowledge and experience.
Freedom of expression is the right of people to express their opinions publicly without governmental interference, according to dictionary.com. On this topic, there will surely be opposing sides to this idea as their beliefs clashed.
Singer believes that freedom of expression is essential to any democracy and therefore should not be limited. As in the case of David Irving, his denial of the holocaust caused him to be imprisoned, which Singer believes that he should be released to uphold the idea of freedom of expression. He believes that for humans to progress further, freedom of expression is a must in democratic countries, whereby people are free to challenge the beliefs of other religions. I support his view that freedom of expression to a certain extent as I feel that freedom of expression is needed for the country to progress, as the public could voice their views about the way the government is run, as in the pros and cons, and thus helping the government to improve and to cater to public needs, with it, the country could progress further when government and public comes to an understanding.
In a different view from Singer, Szilagyi believes that more focus should be placed on social responsibility. He believes that in our networked world, existing societal and political tensions can be inflamed instantly through the transfer of messages from one cultural context to another, and thus the media needs to constantly review the articles and filter them. He believes that the media should not publish those which will spark the anger of races, country, religions, regardless of the freedom of expression. I agree as social responsibility is essential for peace to prevail. Nobody could stop the articles from coming in the hope to be published, however the media has the power to stop it from being published. The media should has social responsibility as to take care of the feelings of the people as a whole, not exposing racist or discrimination remarks to them, igniting their rage. Who cares about freedom of expression if chaos resulting from this breaks out? They will not even has the time to care as their only focus will be running for their lives.
In the context of Singapore’s multi-racial society, where there is cultural and religious pluralism, I feel that Szilagyi's view should be adopted. Though Singer's view has its own merits as freedom of expression is needed for the country to progress, I feel that freedom of expression should be limited. As Singapore is a multi-racial society, it will mean that racial issues will be sensitive. The evidence is that in september 2005, 2 chinese bloggers post anti-Muslim remarks and expletives laden comments against Malays and Muslims which he parodied the 'halal' logo and placed it beside a pig head in response to a Malay Muslim comment about transporting uncaged dogs in taxis in the Straits Times. This triggered off widespread comments involving the slinging of racial slurs between Malays and Chinese. One entry among thousands of entries in blogs, one should find it difficult to be discovered. However it is being taken out and used as evidence against the 2 chinese. Such sensitive issues should not even be touched in the first place. Once it is touched, there will always remain a sense of distrust amongs the races. As Singapore main resource is man, if there is discord among men and thus caused riots to break out, Singapore will fall from internal strife. Therefore, it is very important to safekeep the harmony now enjoyed by Singaporeans and to be able to do this, freedom of expression should be limited and more focus should be placed on social responsibility whereby media could double checked the contents of the articles and discard those which will cause possible threats to the existing harmony.
In conclusion, as I find that freedom of expression could be carried out in expressing opinions of the way the country is run, ideas for improvement, however when it comes to issues that will lead to threats to the country's safety it should be denied. Thus come the social responsibility where the media will filter the contents of articles, which is very important as an racist article goes undetected into the newspaper may just spark off the start of racial riots. Thus I feel that Szilagyi's view should be adopted as Singer's view is not suited for a multi-racial society such as in Singapore.
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