首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks on his backside? So much has been argue
Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks on his backside? So much has been argue
admin
2009-04-26
93
问题
Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks on his backside? So much has been argued, rejoined and rehashed about the case of Michael Fay, an 18-year-old convicted of vandalism and sentenced to a caning in Singapore, that an otherwise sorry little episode has shaded into a certified International Incident, complete with intercessions by the U.S. head of state. An affair has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West and the proper functioning of U.S. law and order.
Which, to all appearances, is what Singapore wanted. The question of whether anyone should care about Michael Fay is idle. Though Singapore officials profess shock at the attention his case had drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach of a safe society about human rights?
The caning sentence has concentrated minds wondrously on an already lively domestic debate over what constitutes a due balance between individual and majority rights. Too bad Michael Fay has become a focus for this discussion. Not only does he seem destined to be pummeled and immobilized, but the use of Singapore as a standard for judging any other society, let alone the cacophonous U.S., is fairly worthless.
To begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Even without its government’s disciplinary measures, Singapore more than plausibly would be much the same as it is now. An academic commonplace today is that the major factor determining social peace and prosperity is culture—a sense of common identity, tradition and values.
Unlike Singapore, though, the U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced a gridlock in the justice system. Its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix, the American experience is becoming the world’s.
The circumstances of this affair—evidently no Singaporean has ever been punished under the Vandalism Act for defacing private property—suggest that Singapore has used Fay as an unwilling point man in a growing quarrel between East and West about human rights.
选项
A、His case captured worldwide attention.
B、He received severe punishment.
C、His experience was out of the ordinary.
D、He was likely to be disabled.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pma4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Asyoucanseebyyourself,things______tobeexactlyastheprofessorhadforeseen.
"Theword’protection’isnolongertaboo(禁忌语)."Thisshortsentence,utteredbyFrenchPresidentNicolasSarkozylatelastmont
Youshouldn’tbeso______—Ididn’tmeananythingbadinwhatIsaid.
Writeanessaybasedonthefollowinggraphexplainingtheupgradingofmassentertainmenttransformationbroughtaboutbythei
KimiyukiSudashouldbeaperfectcustomerforJapan’scar-makers.He’sayoung,successfulexecutiveatanInternet-servicesco
Theclean-energybusinessisturningintothenextbiginvestmentboom,inwhichrisksarelightlyignored.Untilrecently,reca
Musicisamystery.Itisuniquetothehumanrace:nootherspeciesproduceselaboratesoundfornoparticularreason.Ithasb
PublichealthofficialsgrapplingwiththeobesityepidemichavedebatedawiderangeofapproachestohelpingslimtheAmerican
Moveover,organic,fairtradeandfreerange—thelatestinenlightenedediblesishere:foodwith"embedded"positiveintention
We’refairlygoodatjudgingpeoplebasedonfirstimpressions,thinslicesofexperiencerangingfromaglimpseofaphototoa
随机试题
索氏抽提法测罐头中的脂肪时,所用器皿需烘干至恒重的是()。
物流企业的内部长期投资一般是指()
国体决定了一国的国家性质。下列选项中属于我国国体的
科学计算是目前计算机应用最广的领域。()
TheeasternpartofAustraliais_______inclimatetothewesternpart.
背景某政府机关新建高层办公大楼幕墙工程公开招标,有6家具有建筑幕墙施工资质的企业参加投标。开标后,招标人按照法定程序组织评标委员会进行评标,评标的标准和方法在开标会议上公布,并作为《招标文件》附件发送给各投标人。评标委员会在对各投标人的资信、商务
A、 B、 C、 D、 D每个图形的封闭区域数都和外部图形的线条数相等。
结构化程序设计方法的主要原则可以概括为自顶向下、逐步求精、______和限制使用goto语句。
有如下程序______。 long fib (int n) { if(n>2) returb(fib(n-1)+fib(n-2)); else return(2); } main() {printf("%d\n",fib(3));} 该程序的输出结果是__
下列程序的输出结果是()。#includemain()voidfun(int*a,int*b){inta=1,b=2,*x=&a,*y=&b;{int*k;fun(x,y);
最新回复
(
0
)