How often does one question the intention of Singapore government's intention in intervening with our personal life? Government intervention is when the government regulates and intervenes with various activities and decisions of a individual in the society through policies or campaigns that can influence people. This essay will reason why government intervention with personal relationships, choices and interest will benefit the society as a whole. Firstly, the government's intervention with personal family planning and values by encouraging larger families is to ensure that in the future, our society will have enough working adults to care for the ageing population and support the growth of our economy. Secondly, government intervenes with
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With government's campaigns and efforts to encourage couples to have more children, it intervenes with the citizen's belief and family values and choices with regards to how many children they would like to have. By having incentives such as Baby Bonus, which helps the couple with the financial cost of raising a child and offering tax relief for adults with children, it encourages bigger family with more children. Also, through pro-family campaigns such as "Baby Singapore 2013", activities such as baby shows and parenting workshops are held nationwide to promote family bonding. These campaigns promote parenthood and starting a family through having children. The result of having more children is for a stronger workforce in the future. With an ageing population, more working adults are necessary to ensure that our economy would continue prospering and the economic growth can be maintained. With more children, there will be more working adults in the future to support our ageing population. There will be a smaller dependency ratio and the burden of taking care of an elderly will not be so high if there are more working adults to share the load. Therefore, with more children, it will benefit our economy and society greatly. Hence, the government's intervention with family planning and encouraging more births is beneficial to the …show more content…
With the Sedition Act, which prohibits seditious acts and speech, such as racist or offensive remarks on publication, it intervenes with the people's choice of what they post or publish. In an online social platform where a person could post anything he or she wants and anyone can read it, the intervention of the government is important when the post involves insulting a race or religion. For example, in 2015, teen blogger Amos Yee was found guilty and convicted for making offensive or wounding remarks against Christianity and for circulating obscene imagery. He deliberately posted obscene material to cause ill will among Christians and was thus arrested and charged. Without the government's intervention under the sedition act, it could have escalated into social conflicts between the religions in the society, promoting of social disharmony. Also, the creator of 'The Real Singapore' each faced 7 charges against them under the Sedition Act for posting articles against foreigners in Singapore with the intention of creating social divide. By misrepresenting information given and fabricating their own articles that are seditious, they were stirring up racial conflicts and xenophobia which affects social cohesion. As Singapore have many foreigner workers and different nationality working together in the society, cohesion and interactions is extremely important to
With government's campaigns and efforts to encourage couples to have more children, it intervenes with the citizen's belief and family values and choices with regards to how many children they would like to have. By having incentives such as Baby Bonus, which helps the couple with the financial cost of raising a child and offering tax relief for adults with children, it encourages bigger family with more children. Also, through pro-family campaigns such as "Baby Singapore 2013", activities such as baby shows and parenting workshops are held nationwide to promote family bonding. These campaigns promote parenthood and starting a family through having children. The result of having more children is for a stronger workforce in the future. With an ageing population, more working adults are necessary to ensure that our economy would continue prospering and the economic growth can be maintained. With more children, there will be more working adults in the future to support our ageing population. There will be a smaller dependency ratio and the burden of taking care of an elderly will not be so high if there are more working adults to share the load. Therefore, with more children, it will benefit our economy and society greatly. Hence, the government's intervention with family planning and encouraging more births is beneficial to the …show more content…
With the Sedition Act, which prohibits seditious acts and speech, such as racist or offensive remarks on publication, it intervenes with the people's choice of what they post or publish. In an online social platform where a person could post anything he or she wants and anyone can read it, the intervention of the government is important when the post involves insulting a race or religion. For example, in 2015, teen blogger Amos Yee was found guilty and convicted for making offensive or wounding remarks against Christianity and for circulating obscene imagery. He deliberately posted obscene material to cause ill will among Christians and was thus arrested and charged. Without the government's intervention under the sedition act, it could have escalated into social conflicts between the religions in the society, promoting of social disharmony. Also, the creator of 'The Real Singapore' each faced 7 charges against them under the Sedition Act for posting articles against foreigners in Singapore with the intention of creating social divide. By misrepresenting information given and fabricating their own articles that are seditious, they were stirring up racial conflicts and xenophobia which affects social cohesion. As Singapore have many foreigner workers and different nationality working together in the society, cohesion and interactions is extremely important to