MayBank Debate: Lessons Learnt?

Call a Spick, a spick, and a Spack, a Spack.

Two wrongs do not make one right.

Give credit where credit is due.

In response to the MayBank discriminatory policy and the subsequent action and direction of the cabinet, Hishamuddin said the MayBank's policy and it's directive was not just an internal matter. According to Hishamuddin, the bank's approach was wrong as such acts could create misperception and anxiety about government policies.

"We are in our 50th year of independence and people want to learn from our system, and here we are bickering about a matter that shouldn't have surfaced at all. This is a lesson to us as a multi-racial nation, that a small matter like this can be sensitive."

Hail Hishamuddin! Call him a turncoat, but he do have the intelligible sense and morality to say the right thing and state it openly in public.

I do not agree it is a small thing as every evil begins from something small but insidious. It could set a precedent and virulent practices which goes against the rule of law and morality. Evil rules and policies could become a convention and ultimately presumed by a community as a right and privileged enjoyed and demanded.

Will there be consistencies and concurrence in those who have the power and influence to dictate the system of administration based on similar ideological and political conviction. Somehow, I am paranoid but I want to psychic myself to believe that good common sense will prevail and that there is hope of a better system based on natural justice and the rule of law.