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'Kleptomaniac or just plain greedy?' You tell me... I was reading today's papers and this article in the Home section struck me.. It was about 24 year old former computer programmer for SIA who has this tendency to shoplift. And apparently she has been diagnosed as suffering from kleptomania. If you ask me, its all just bull. Kleptomania?? More like a glorified term lawyers use to defend their client's case. If you shoplift, you shoplift. Don't go round using terms like kleptomania. And just to be sure I got the meaning correct, I looked up Cambridge's online dictionary for its meaning:
kleptomania
noun [U]
a very strong and uncontrollable desire to steal, especially without any need or purpose, usually considered to be a type of mental illness
I honestly don't believe in that. And I happen to think its a whole lot of crock... So just because you have been termed to be suffering from kleptomania, you can escape a jail term because the CJ thinks it will destroy your very last hope?? I say, he's just being sympathetic towards you. The article goes on to explain that kleptomaniacs usually steal things of little importance. Bull.. Whether the items are of little or much importance, stealing is still stealing. Since when have we started putting up levels of shoplifting? So if I walk into Watson's later and steal a toothbrush and I get caught, all I have to do is say 'I don't know what I was doing. I just couldn't control myself??'
So what about murderers, litterbugs, rapists, terrorists?? Just a simple, 'I couldn't control myself' absolves you from all blame and punishment?
Makes you wonder where has all that morality and civic responsibility gone to...
The other article that set me thinking was one that was published on Monday (i think) where this man was suing Sentosa because he got stung by a stonefish. Since when was it the Sentosa management's duty to undertake responsibility for such freak accidents? It is a public beach and we all go there to have fun, at our own risks. They can't control the marine life that make the beach their habitats. Why should they be responsible? It was just an unfortunate accident, no one could have seen that coming.
I symthatise with the man who was stung but to push all the blame to Sentosa is just ludicrous. The management can, out of goodwill, offer to pay for his medical bills etc. but to sue them on the grounds that he lost his job due to the accident?
This is different from that stupid bar that was erected at the walkway at Pasir Ris Park (i think) that left a father of two paralysed waist down. That bar was within the control of the contractor or LTA who put it up.
Granted, both were unfortunate accidents but the circumstances were completely different.
'Kleptomaniac or just plain greedy?' You tell me... I was reading today's papers and this article in the Home section struck me.. It was about 24 year old former computer programmer for SIA who has this tendency to shoplift. And apparently she has been diagnosed as suffering from kleptomania. If you ask me, its all just bull. Kleptomania?? More like a glorified term lawyers use to defend their client's case. If you shoplift, you shoplift. Don't go round using terms like kleptomania. And just to be sure I got the meaning correct, I looked up Cambridge's online dictionary for its meaning:
kleptomania
noun [U]
a very strong and uncontrollable desire to steal, especially without any need or purpose, usually considered to be a type of mental illness
I honestly don't believe in that. And I happen to think its a whole lot of crock... So just because you have been termed to be suffering from kleptomania, you can escape a jail term because the CJ thinks it will destroy your very last hope?? I say, he's just being sympathetic towards you. The article goes on to explain that kleptomaniacs usually steal things of little importance. Bull.. Whether the items are of little or much importance, stealing is still stealing. Since when have we started putting up levels of shoplifting? So if I walk into Watson's later and steal a toothbrush and I get caught, all I have to do is say 'I don't know what I was doing. I just couldn't control myself??'
So what about murderers, litterbugs, rapists, terrorists?? Just a simple, 'I couldn't control myself' absolves you from all blame and punishment?
Makes you wonder where has all that morality and civic responsibility gone to...
The other article that set me thinking was one that was published on Monday (i think) where this man was suing Sentosa because he got stung by a stonefish. Since when was it the Sentosa management's duty to undertake responsibility for such freak accidents? It is a public beach and we all go there to have fun, at our own risks. They can't control the marine life that make the beach their habitats. Why should they be responsible? It was just an unfortunate accident, no one could have seen that coming.
I symthatise with the man who was stung but to push all the blame to Sentosa is just ludicrous. The management can, out of goodwill, offer to pay for his medical bills etc. but to sue them on the grounds that he lost his job due to the accident?
This is different from that stupid bar that was erected at the walkway at Pasir Ris Park (i think) that left a father of two paralysed waist down. That bar was within the control of the contractor or LTA who put it up.
Granted, both were unfortunate accidents but the circumstances were completely different.
posted by muse at 2:45 PM
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