What's stopping us from killing one another in spite or anger?
Do we fear the law, or do we fear the punishment?
The Law is a deterrent but let us question this, we do not harm others because we fear being punished and not because we know that we do not bear any right to do so. Sounds nebulous?
I wouldn't kill someone I hate more because of the punishment I will face than the fact that I will grieve his family. Lucid?
Which is why, in the land of the Free where people have been numbed to the long arm of judiciary that such vindictive killings and shootings have occurred.
It is a terrible thought this, that Singapore is a safe country because the society has welded an iron whip on our lesser selves. As the world integrates and such binds weaken, what may result in future is something to genuinely fear for.
Put together the fact that the human is arcane and vacillates to his fancy, do you sleep safe at night?
It is a......
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