Originally posted by maurizio13:
If you so choose not to be classified under Animal Kingdom, you
have 4 more choices under the British system of nomenclature, they
are:
(Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Bacteria) Take your
pick.
Do you prefer to be a plant, fungus, protist or bacteria? 
....
Pardon my directness, but your reply
is irrelevant at best and dumb at worst.
It serves no purpose nor enhance your credential by doing
cut/paste/push/past courtesy of Wiki-pedia, while skirting around
my question and finally coming back with a contradictive conclusion
against the original poster!
Don't get it? Allow me to simplify the agenda:
He said
".. same logic as taking a domesticated bird and setting it
free in the wild, the domesticated bird will not survive too long
in the wild..."
You said
"... Singapore is a tough place, which makes it more
enticing to emigrate to other easier countries.
So which one of you is correct? OR collectively, both of you are
infering that migrating Singaporeans are weak-non-domesticated
birds who cannot endure "hardship" of Singapore and can only
survive in the wild???
So, PLEASE refrain from using the analogy of domesticated animals
or fungi growth with human migration, especially in Singapore's
context.
Coz only human commit the act of suicide when survival gets tough
not animals and, certainly not in fungal kingdom.
Speaking of suicide, here's a WHO URL with figures from Australia
& Singapore at per 100,000 
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/index.html
