JC1 HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT

Established as an independant state since 1965, the aim of the government was to create a socitey whereby multi racial is praticised.The importance of multi racial was shown during the two racial riots before achieving independance.Injuries were caused and many lives were lost.This reflects how vulnerable our society are to any social unrest among us,the people living in this little island, known as Singapore.It is also due to that we only have human as a natural resource that stresses the importance of us living in harmony.Once tension arises , riots may occur adversly afftecting our economic.

Of course, it is important to have a freedom of speech as stated in the article by Peter Singer.It is thru the freedom that people get to express thier displeasure on certain issues.It also allows the problem to bemade known to the public and then , solutions may then be thought of.As a saying goes, many heads are better than one.The tension or displeasure may then be resolved with external help and tension may then be reduced.For instance the freedom of expressing feelings towards the holocast should be allowed.Despite the senstivity of the victioms it should be alowed so that people are welll aware of the event and tis consequences.Thus, this might caution the public or serve as a warning to the current government that a event like this should not occur anymore.

However, more crticially, it is important to note Szilagyi view that more focus should be placed on moralilty.He emphasises the newspapers should be aware that they do not create the content and lifespan of thier messages.As every messsages would develop its own life and a new issue might be created.Hence, this leads us down to the root of the cause.If there is social responsibilty amongst the people, they will report facts and not create information.

In my own opinion, i feel that having social responsibility is more important then just allowing the freeedom of speech.If one has social responsibilty, he would not create information to stirr up the people's emotions or create tension.Rather, he just reports facts that are laready true and cannot be denied.It is also a common place to see exaggerted in the newspaper where people make matters sound worse.However with the social responsibilty and when only facts are reoprted, this may serve as a warning or an advise to the public.For instance, the trend that Chinese Newsparers are developing is to report on China people as egative impacts on our society.These people especially "pei tu ma ma"( a common word in chinese to represent mothers who accompany thier children here to study) are often classified by Singaporeans as cunning and sinister.This are not unessary tensions and rumors spread by the people.This is because, it is the truth that many men are cheated by these China Women off their money and families are broken up.Hence, this relfects an importance for the government to step in to solve the problem.
Also with social responsibilty , one who not spread rumors or exaggerate the event that they had saw on the newspaper.Hence it is very important to have social responsibilty to love the nation and love every citizen.This combined with the allowance of the freedo of speech would then led to a more harmnious and peaceful society.