I
brought in the house and car as a juxtaposition to show how
irrelevant your introduction of the educational privileges is to a
debate about NS.
Well and good - foreigners DO enjoy the privelege of safety -
what's the problem, or have you forgotten that PRs serve NS as
well?
Japan? Don't be ridiculous. You think that anybody's going to
attack a country where US forces are stationed? Fine - why don't we
give PLAB to the USAF and Changi to the USN? Then we can all be
free to depend on someone else for protection the way we did in
1942.
Christ on a pogo stick, are you suggesting that we live in a
war-free world? Where have you been hiding? Do yourself a favour
and learn to use this wonderful little invention called a newspaper
- I'm sure it'll be an enlightening experience for you.
Hey, I don't have a problem with women serving NS - if other
countries can practice that, so can we. Also, I wouldn't bet the
farm that women get job priveleges - got proof of that
allegation?
If you've read enough of my posts to know that I was a Commando and
that I've migrated to Australia, you'll have read enough to know
that NS was a good experience for me and I therefore support the
system. What makes you think that I'm opposed to this writer's idea
simply because I served my NS?
What I am opposed to is someone making up flimsy excuses (he can't
even decide if he wants to be a Thai or an American, for God's
sake) after he's sucked up all the goodies and the time has come to
pay his dues.
My stand is this: this spineless little worm has no scrupules, and
he wants to live under the illusion that there IS such a thing as a
free lunch. Well, tough - this is the real world. If you want to
take it on a philosophical level, every right and privilege is
accompanied by a responsibility. Our young friend is simply making
a laughably desperate attempt at arguing his way out of
responsibilty. Let the Thais or Yanks have him - I'm sure they'll
appreciate someone of his gutless nature.
Are you so certain that the upgrading exercises are unnecessary?
Even being mindful of the limits imposed by the Official Secrets
Act, I can find you a number of people who would heartily disagree
with you on that point - if you refer to some of the threads in the
SAF forum, you will see that there are some threads that the
moderators have gagged to stay on the right side of national
security, but what's been posted is enough to at least imply that
the situation is not all that comfortable
my response was to someone mentioning the priviledges about
being a citizen in singapore, not about the debate on NS, or
whether Mr Pavin should serve NS.
as i mentioned earlier: other countries can provide safety, why
should safety be considered a priviledge when Mr Pavin could get
those from most countries in the world?
United States of America have been meddling in other countries
affairs, not just Japan as well.
Since which part of my thread did i suggest anything about should
women serve NS?
as for jobs, read the thread I posted right at speaker's
corner
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=174072
check out jobstreet, check out jobsdb
he has already mentioned that his plans to migrate to USA. He
intends to be an american, not a thai. My guess is that his using
thailand as a stepping stone to the USA.
http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=168291
so you are saying building more parks are more important than the
welfare of NSmen? I checked out the SAF forum and I cant find any
threads about HDB upgradings is necessary. You might want to give
me the thread links so that i can have a look.
My stand is this: If we are going to reason that Mr Pavin should
serve NS on the basis of priviledges and safety, we should ask the
foreigners to bear their responsibilities and serve NS as well when
they are getting subsidies and even study allowances as well .
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?p=16163743&posted=1#post1616374.
To me, if he has no point of staying in Singapore, was the point of
wasting time and money on him?
