Four-five rocks!

1) Personally, if you asked me, “was the sentence too light?” before I read the papers, I would probably have said yes. This was because we can’t possibly have an unauthorised man moving about Singapore with a rifle and put everyone’s life in jeopardy.

Now after I read the papers, my answer to the question would be no. Why? It is because if any of us were in his place, we would understand that he was afraid, afraid of losing someone that cared for him after all these years of loneliness. Would you be proud when your father goes in and out of jail since you were young? Would you feel loved when your mum after gambling comes back and beats you for no apparent reasons?

The answer to the questions above would be no. I believe for the judge to mete out that sentence is because he had considered all the reasons for Dave Teo Ming to have done such actions. Considering Dave’s family background, I’m sure he is drained in his mentality. He needed care and that is when Miss Crystal Liew came into the picture. She became the most important person Dave needed, therefore when she wanted to break up with him, Dave decided force her to stay with him. He cannot afford to lose her. Dave taking the rifle out of the camp was a foolish act to try and salvage his relationship with Miss Crystal Liew. He did it out of love and the fortunate thing we should consider is no one was hurt physically.

Yes, I do agree a punishment is needed to warn the others against such actions, but I also believe that being able to consider Dave’s actions and lighten his sentence was the right move. He is still young and there are still many things waiting for him in life. The sentence was fair enough. We shouldn’t condemn him to a full 34 years jail term for his moment of folly. If he were to be jailed for 34 years of his life, I would most probably say his life his really over. It is because by the time he comes out, he would be ‘detached’ from society and most probably turn to the wrong path and end up in jail again. For us, I believe we should learn forgive and forget, it was not as if he committed murder right? For him, I think it would be a lesson learnt and hopefully when he is out of jail, the society will be prepared to accept him. I also hope that the charges he would face at the military court would be lighter.

As for his friends, I believed they wouldn’t have been slapped with charges now if they had persuaded and bring him to surrender the rifle or had informed the police immediately after the call. I feel sorry for them to have got involved in this for just that one call though.



2) In my opinion, the sale of organ would be purely for monetary gains, I believe this would start off a pretty bad trend of illegal companies getting people to sell their organs while making profits as a middleman with all the contracts and stuffs.

It is sad to see such thing happening even when society is progressing rapidly. In the olden days, perhaps we would see such things, but now there are such cases? This is outrageous I think. Why would we sell off our organs when we are alive and perfectly fine? If it was to help someone, I believe people would donate rather than selling it. By selling it, it only meant that it was a transaction of money for organ and the person selling the organ would only use this chance to make a pile out of the deal. I have seen many people willing to donate their organs, when they are alive and after they die, so why are people buying organs?

One more thing that I don’t get is that does people who are rich think that money could solve everything? It is because from the news, the chairman of CK Tangs actually fork out $300,000 to buy a kidney. This shows us bad signs, a sign that tells our society that only the rich can get organs for transplant, a sign that tells people in their mind “I can sell my organ if I’m in need of money.”

It is the wrong way of thinking; people who need money will take it as quick cash while people who need the organ would think money could solve everything. Yes it’s true both parties would gain what they want, but it would just send out the wrong information to everyone. This would spark off more debates of people selling organs and very you would see tons of people rushing to sell of their organs like kidneys since our body could still function properly even with only one kidney. People would see themselves as what? Dollar notes and coins?

If it were to be made legalized, very soon you will start seeing people advertising for people interested for quick cash to sign up at their company and sell their organs. Blood donations drive would become “blood for cash” drive where you will see long queues of people lining up to get cash for their blood instead of going to work. Our economic would definitely be affected if all these selling of organs were to be legalized without a counter measure made by the government against those that think they can get cash by doing so. Children might even be kidnapped to have their organs and blood taken out to sell off to people through the so-called legal methods. I believe therefore it should not be legalized unless the government can make a loophole-less rule to prevent such things from happening.


*cough* ~Joseph~ *cough*