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      "body": "There have been many attempts to fix the problem of what our papers call “political apathy”. There are people who claim that such apathy is intrinsic in the youths that exhibit it; they lament it as the curse of a generation, and that nothing can be done to change it. There are also people who claim, quite accurately, that this alleged apathy is caused by the government – though one would wonder why their accusations are so feeble; gently blaming the policies of the “nanny state” instead of condemning the totalitarian monstrosity which it is.\n\nSuch is the importance of “political correctness” that even the main critics of the State seek to adhere to.\nConsider a person, who, in a freak airplane accident, lands on a deserted island. The only manner in which he can survive would be to make decisions and to trust in the ability of his mind. Any default would hamper his chances of survival. 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Most adolescents I see now do not think of education as a joyous pursuit of knowledge, but rather a meaningless chore to be get over and done with. Yet we have people like Kishore Mahbubani who openly wonder why “our education system is clearly one of the best in the world, but it has not yet produced world-class minds who win Nobel Prizes.”\n\nThe blight goes on with the a person’s obligation to serve in National Service. Our political leaders claim that conscription is necessary because of our country’s need to defend itself – completely evading the fact that should men value something above their lives, it is not propaganda or a slave-whip that will make people voluntarily defend the country. Whether a court agrees or not, it is an infringement of a person’s right to his own life. Instead of protecting the individual rights of men from the dictator and the robber, the state chooses to act as the dictator and robber – as if the force can be justified simply by a legal decree. The case of Dominque Sarron Lee is the absolute embodiment of our default; that reality is not stretchable to a bureaucrat’s whims, that man is not a tool to someone else’s ends.\n\nA state who justifies slavery to “defend the nation”, would similarly justify slavery to “build the pyramids”, or to “build roads”, or “for their own good”.\n\nThere are other examples of such monstrous and ugly acts by the state, such as the pseudo-Prohibition timings, the “luxury” taxes imposed, the CPF, the Uber fiasco, but for the purpose of this article, I will not digress that far. 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