If I am not mistaken we have restricted categories to protect people of different ages from watching harmful movies or TV programmes. I can recalled seeing R(13), R(16), R(18), R(A) and things like parental guidance advised or PG.
The above categories are needed as children are either too innocent, too young, too immature, impressionable, gullible and may not be able to handle sexual, violence or adult teams in the movies. Children are vulnerable and need protection from the wise adults. It is for their own good.
Now, when the adults grow older, they will gradually lose their ability to think rationally too. Some will start to lose control of themselves and their mental faculty. And some will be easily lured, tempted by sex and money. Many would not be able to handle their money wisely. But when you ask them and they would not think so. They will fiercely defend their independence, their maturity and wisdom, eating more salt than you ate rice, and claimed to know what they are doing.
What is wrong if they find a beautiful young nymph that is so attractive that they would want to give all their money to, to live with her for a few days or a few months or forever, something to die for? What is wrong if he wants to give away his money happily. You know, when a person is happy, deeply in love or infatuated, money is not important. They will tell you it is good to die standing, to die happy, to live and die for the moment. Can you fault that?
And this is applicable to the feline sex as well. They too want to spend their money when it is worth spending, when the heart feels so good. They too want to have their one night stand or their fling as long as money is the only thing that matters. Can anyone say no if they want to spend their money the way they choose to
The only time or condition that someone can say no to people spending their money, with the audacity, is to pronounce another person of unsound mind or mentally incapable to protect himself, to make sound decisions concerning his money. The person is retard and needs his protection. And many immortals believe this is so and they are the audacious ones, the chosen ones to just do that. Many or most adults are simply incapable of protecting or looking after their money once they reached 55 or above when they qualify to withdraw their life time savings from the CPF. This is the precise moment when these people are ruled as retards. These people must be protected from abusing themselves, from amusing themselves by exploiting their new found wealth from their life savings, money. They must be protected from the money they have saved and rightfully belong to them to do harm to themselves. They must be pronounced to be of unsound mind when money is concerned.
Let’s invent a new category called R(60) to protect these folks. They must not be allowed to watch movies or programmes that encouraged hedonism, freedom of choice, freedom to do what they want, freedom to spend their money. They could still be allowed to watch movies under R(A) as long as they are kept from touching their money. They can ogle and imagine and fantasise, but not allowed to do the real thing with the money they have, like going on long holidays or having great meals or drinking sessions with their loved ones or friends, or pampering themselves.
R(60) category will be very useful to protect these old folks from their life savings. These are people that cannot be trusted with their own money. They ca will their wealth to their loved ones or nominees when they die. The more I think of this R(60) the more useful I think it can be.
CPF also protects us from wasting our money away as we will get an allowance each month so we cant spend away our savings. Isn't the government so thoughtful?
Chua Chin Leng AKA RedBean
*The writer blogs at mysingaporenews.blogspot.com