Singapore Notes, 19 Nov 2012
You would roll your eyes too as the Assistant Political Writer of the Sunday Times shared similar disdain for safe practices. If you believe him, it's perfectly acceptable to ignore the seat belt at the back of the taxi, use the smartphone while driving, or dash across the road instead of walking the couple of metres to a pedestrian crossing. Just because it's done here.
The moral malaise, we read, is already endemic in the National Service training grounds: "the army seems to revolve around breaking the rules". And he wasn't talking about the President's son evading dangerous field exercises by seeking refuge in a laboratory. Full story