Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Elizabeth Wong : 13th Floor
Someone way out in Putrajaya must be having a bad case of epiphanies - the latest being a ‘National Integrity Plan’ designed to “imbue our Malaysian society with a strong sense of right and wrong”.
While the swords of moral philosophy remain unsheathed in the meta- and normative war of ethics, our government now sees fit to set in stone the ‘boleh-land’ definition of what is right and wrong. A Herculean effort considering the government has done so without the help from our poorly funded, gagged and darkened halls of academia and a distinguished philosophy department to boot (I digress). (more…)
