Opps! Ling Khai Ree No Kera

The MCA Youth twist the whole drama around and declared that the meeting between Khairy and his MCA counter-part Ling Hee Leong over the controversy on the remarks made by Khairy through private meetings was not proper and demanded that the matter be sorted out through the proper channel. MCA Youth declared that the party had not sent any representative to talk to Khairy.

“The meeting between MCA Youth deputy chief Ling Hee Leong and Khairy (on Monday) was merely a private meeting,” Wee Ka Siong, MCA Youth secretary-general said.

“The meeting was purely personal and private. It was Ling’s right to meet Khairy as a friend to find out more about the matter.

“But as far as MCA Youth is concerned, we have not sent anyone for a formal meeting with Khairy,” Wee told reporters at the Parliament lobby here yesterday.

Dr Wee was commenting on Ling’s statement on Monday that Khairy, during a meeting between the two, had assured the MCA he had no intention of hurting feelings of the Chinese community.

Ling had also said that both of them were looking at the greater interest of the nation.

Meanwhile, Ling said Khairy had spoken to him, as they were both counterparts in the MCA and Umno.

“I was also one of the Barisan leaders who was not happy with his remarks. That was why he decided to meet me to give his assurance that he did not mean to hurt the feeling of the Chinese community,” he said.

“We also agreed to take this issue as a lesson and to not use racial issues to gain political mileage as this will not bring any advantage to any person.”

He believed that he would not be the only Barisan leader that Khairy would meet, as Barisan Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein had said that Khairy would explain to other Barisan leaders.

Is this a sign of MCA's internal crack, or that the MCA had observed the general public's dissatisfaction over the shoo-shoo manner of resolution?

To the general public, it was absolutely clear that Khairy had acted voluntarily in making the statement, deliberately choosing a particular event/action for its own sake which involves a twofold interior action of the will and of intention.

The manner in which Hishamuddin had taken in support of Khairy's justification was totally unacceptable and inconsistent to natural law, namely, that a man should avoid ignorance that he must not give offence to others with whom he must associate and all actions of like nature.

Hishamuddin had said: “If Khairy says that his statement had been misunderstood, I believe that it had been misunderstood."

This propositions refutes themselve either because they are directly self-contradictory or because they logically entails their contradiction. Inconsistency between what is asserted by the statement and facts that are given in and by the making of the statement are performative inconsistent.

There are propositions which cannot be coherently asserted, because they are inevitably falsified by any assertion of them. An operational self-refuting proposition cannot be coherently asserted, for it contradicts either the proposition or some proposition entailed by the proposition that someone is asserting it.

I repeat here again:

It is impossible for the welfare of the community at alrge to be in a healthy state unless these political leaders are virtuous, or at least such of them as are called to take up the direction of affairs.

Reasons in justification of wrongs does not supply the answers, although it does impose some restriction on our ability to hold too many incompatible positions simultaneously (Lyons 1984, Ch 1). Moral judgment is a readable argument that supports this conclusion, against the challenge of ethical nihilism, social and individualistic relativism.