On Responsibility

As professor Godbole says, it is written in the stars. The professor is a character played by Alec Guinness in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India.

I have written what needed to be written about the Ketua Pemuda Race. There is nothing more than I can do. Whoever wins, will be the undisputed Ketua Pemuda. He has to work hard on the promises made and actualise his agenda. More importantly, whoever wins must be accepted as the Ketua Pemuda for the next 3 years.

Whoever wins, I offer my congratulations.

Just as I finished the above sentence, word came that KJ has won. Well, let me join the others in offering him my salutations. His people have been working very hard. Bloggers such as the urchin-like Bengkel Waziboy formerly known as Mr. Padedoh has been a real pillar of support warding off the derisive comments that came into my blog. I am afraid, if I were left to my own devices, I couldn't have the time to counter all of them.

Luckily, I have been able to count on his dedication and perseverance to deflect the attacks and take away the sting of the pain. I have also been pleasantly surprised by the stand taken by the blogger Mat Cendana for coming out strongly FOR KJ.

Now, my recent blog has attracted a lot of comments. Indeed this is the largest number of comments I have received thus far. That however is no excuse to be happy about. For, I am not sure if the majority of the commentators have the mental discipline to argue with reason. Many gave derisive shot and sometimes personally abusive comments.

Take for instance one particularly virulent commentator insinuating that I am taking this particular stand for KJ because I received my datoship later and that KJ has skewered (sula) me with money and projects.

This one is a real coward. Hey, I hear a shot from an AK47 has an eerily devastating effect. When fired, the bullet makes a clean entry, but the force of the bullet after entry makes a burrowing effect such that the hole that appears on the opposite side becomes a crater. This vermin who came up with this kind of comment deserves this treatment.

But then I take comfort in something Lee Kuan Yew said or that which can be attributed to him. That which is not seriously written is not taken seriously. Or on the reverse, that which is lightly written is adopted only by 'light' people.

I welcome dissenting views, provided they are made with good reasoning. That is the basic idea to have this uncensored blog. Readers are aware that I do not censor or moderate the comments that come here. First, because I believe that commentators will apply self censorship and intellectual discipline. Second, because I believe in the self cancelling effect of numbers. For those who hurl verbal abuses, there will be an equal number who reject them.

KJ has won, yes. He was given and he accepted a responsibility to lead. Let us help him. Yes, responsibility is the key word here.