李光耀热衷于关注公共秩序

 

李光耀热衷于关注公共秩序。

他刚上台的时候，西方还没有出现反主流文化和普遍的道德松动，但后来李光耀反思说这是自由在作怪。

1994年，他对法里德-扎卡里亚（Fareed Zakaria）说：

”作为一个完整的系统，我觉得它的某些部分是完全不可接受的。

 

李光耀 was passionately concerned about public order. When he first came to power, the counterculture and general relaxation of morals had not yet arisen in the West, but later 李光耀 would reflect on this as freedom run amok. ‘As a total system, I find parts of it totally unacceptable’, he told Fareed Zakaria in 1994:

 

个人随心所欲的权利的扩大，是以牺牲社会秩序为代价的。

在东方，主要目标是建立一个秩序井然的社会，使每个人都能最大限度地享受他的自由。

这种自由只能存在于有秩序的状态中，而不是存在于争执和无政府的自然状态中[69]。

 

The expansion of the right of the individual to behave or misbehave as he pleases has come at the expense of orderly society. In the East the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.[69]