InTolerant Singaporeans

Someone wrote in a forum that his/her neighbour smokes in their HBD apartment and the smoke fumes filter into his apartment (vertical). The writer wanted to know how to complain against that smoker.

What is unbelieveable is the fact that the writer wanted to complain and didn't know which authority to direct the complaint to. What is happening to our society here? Does that mean that when we hear our neighbours TV and we do not like the M18 movie he's watching on his dvd player, that we have a right to complain? If our neighbour keeps fish and we think his fish is lazy and doesn't eat mosquito larvae, do we then suggest to the authorities that our neighbour should not be allowed to keep fish? What if we heard our neighbour playing some mantra music and we are not either hindus or buddhists, do we then complain to the town council to limit what kind of music they can listen to? Or do we all have enjoy music with headphones only?

Our society has become so intolerant and selfish that it's no wonder, I prefer to stay at home. Although I'm a home bird - I stay in more these days, simply because whatever's out there will only cause me stress. When walking, people bump into you - and they don't apologise. Then there are parents who drag their undisciplined kids out to the mall screaming. Then there are those who have children who run amok and you can hear their parents yelling after them. Then there are those who are queueing but just pretend they didn't know where the queue ends so that they could stand at the back of the line.

How did we get here?
This isn't alarming - this is a disaster that may not get corrected, since behaviour takes generations to set in. Just because something is not something we like, we condemn. If we don't like cats, we complain until the cat gets put down. If we don't like dogs, we do the same. Crows attack people sometimes, so we shoot them. We don't smoke, so we complain about smokers. We don't drink, so we complain about drink drivers.

We are so messed up in our heads it's no wonder the youngsters these days are messed up. Don't blame the internet. It has nothing to do with the internet - it's got to do with adults who behave so badly and are so intolerant of others that the kids are screwed up.