Reading your tag quotes (which by the way exceed the permitted 3 lines) I wonder if you have any idea of Lee Kuan Yew"s idea of "discipline"?
I lived in Singapore for 3 years (1979-1982) and under Lee Kuan Yew's rule:
* the only place you could have a drink in public was in a hotel lobby bar
* he arranged a "meeting/dating" place solely for university graduates - on the assumption that if 2 "educated" people got married and had offspring, then they would be equally talented - does that ring a bell with about 65 years ago?
* one would not dare discuss politics in public for fear of the "secret police" overhearing the conversation and dragging you away.
* if you wanted to have the boys around for a few drinks and a game of poker, you would send the maid out for the night and pull all the drapes for fear of being seen gambling (it was illegal, in any form)
* university students had no choice of what course to pursue - if LKY decided the country needed more xxxx, then you had to take xxx as a course.
* he instituted a "2 children is enough policy". If a couple dared to have more than 2 children then (a) they would not qualify for government (HDB) housing, additional children could only attend school at some location on the other side of the island, etc.
* the government totally controlled the media and any foreign publication that dared publish anything "anti-PAP (People Action Party)" would be banned from sale in Singapore for a period of 12+ months.
I could go on, but give me "democracy" over "discipline", a.k.a. dictatorship any day.
