tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post116005569586023228..comments2024-03-27T17:00:28.247+08:00Comments on Maverickysm Blogspot: Housing Quota - Unequal Opportunity?Maverick SMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871611453372513136noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post-1160122054768664062006-10-06T16:07:00.000+08:002006-10-06T16:07:00.000+08:00Dear Anonymous,Blinkered and calsified doctrines a...Dear Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Blinkered and calsified doctrines are feudalistics and nomadic. If you belief in social orders and harmony, you can't live in a one man's island. We are a society and I repeat, social justice is not about tit for tat and a wrong by another wrong. The poor cannot be placed in the same social plateau as the rich. There can be no social order if we choose to close our mind and to allow mongoliods to rule. We are all civilised people and we all subscribe to social justice and the rule of jurisprudence.Maverick SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871611453372513136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post-1160119924533866322006-10-06T15:32:00.000+08:002006-10-06T15:32:00.000+08:00Lucia, take another example: the rich pays income ...Lucia, take another example: the rich pays income tax of which, theorethically, the monies are used for development projects, education, health care, etc of which the primary beneficiaries are the poor who didn;t pay tax. So, if you talk literal sense, it is unfair as the monies contributed by the rich in the form of taxation did little to benefit the rich. In foreign countries, they had social security of which the rich are taxed heavily to subsidised the poor and those who needs social security. You see, it is socio-political jurisprudence and the application of good governance and natural law theory. We got to be open minded; likewise, it should be remembered that the poor chinese and indians also do deserve aids and assistance.<BR/><BR/>However, note that two wrongs do not make one right. If there is a wrong, it had to be corrected and if it is not, then the citizens had to put their voice in the ballot boxes.<BR/><BR/>A law is a command which obliges every citizento a course of conduct and proceeds by way of a relationship of "superiority".<BR/><BR/>Human power is embedded in reciprocal relationships and government can be toppled by the peoples' resistance.<BR/><BR/>The science of jurisprudence distringuishes positive law and the rules created by political will which are the reasons. The key is understanding the nature of command that is positive law. A command is an expression of a wish, a significant desire, which is distinguish by the power and the purpose of the government commanding to inflict an evil or pain in case the desire be disregarded. Being liable to evil, the government commanded is bound or obliged by the command and placed under a duty to obey it.<BR/>Secure knowledge will provide and serve as the foundation and structures of the new social order. The modern science of government is to be a governmentality of law and knowledge, not of arbitrary desires; while society is a relationship of men dominating another men and women, the domination structuring modern society is to operate according to law, guided by knowledge and confident in its justice (utility).<BR/><BR/>- John Austin.Maverick SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871611453372513136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post-1160118543806148812006-10-06T15:09:00.000+08:002006-10-06T15:09:00.000+08:00let's make a policy that non-bumi must have 70% in...let's make a policy that non-bumi must have 70% in education, hospital, government department, police, army, etc...<BR/><BR/>hmm??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post-1160118264598269122006-10-06T15:04:00.000+08:002006-10-06T15:04:00.000+08:00Lucia, equality does not mean all are equal, incld...Lucia, equality does not mean all are equal, inclduing communism's theory of equality. It is universally impossible to have equality. The police have power to arrest where ordinary citizens don't have. Diplomats have immunity, judges have immunity, the king is above law... these are references that indicates that equality does not mean equal, per se. Socio-political realities dictates that where a section of the community had distinct disadvantage or handicap, good government must take positive actions to assist and help elevate the society. In other words, the poor needs some help more than the rich and those in destitute conditions will have some privilege where those who are better off may not enjoy those benefits; it's about social leveling as if you refer to the guidance from the Bible and Quran, it is enunciated clearly - help thy neighbour and love thy neighbour.<BR/><BR/>In jurisprudence, and the theory of good government, in order to provide peace and harmony, those who are blessed must be willing to assist those in needs. At such, socio-political realities requires a balancing act. The fundamental is that the rule made to benefit some did not deprive the others to the extent that it is a detriment and empirical marginalisation. Purchasing a house means that the buyer will have to pay themselves...which means the bumi buyers are paying for it; not others.Maverick SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871611453372513136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708423.post-1160110237574528562006-10-06T12:50:00.000+08:002006-10-06T12:50:00.000+08:00so you are saying that this 30% quota for bumis is...so you are saying that this 30% quota for bumis is fair?<BR/><BR/>well right in the beginning there shouldn't be whatwover quota for the bumis. everyone should be treated equal!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com