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by ValentineC 4758 days ago
> I'm really not sure if PAP would have the support it does if people could freely criticize it.

From another perspective, I think it is a harmful anti-democratic cycle that the PAP has enough voting power in Parliament to effectively amend the Singapore constitution without debate [1], and to implement regulations such as this without opening it up to prior public debate.

Other forms of democracy have their shortfalls as well. First-past-the-post, at least in my opinion, needs to be replaced.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore#Amend...