if not ruthless will not be able to accomplish great things
this is the reality, when two big power fight eventually the middle ground will vanish and you are either for or against. you see how brainwashed some jhks and old people in sg is by china propaganda then you can understand if lky never clamp down on the communist sympathizers, singapore wouldnt be where it is today. he understood how insidious the communists fight, by turning the enemy against themselves with sweet lies and building up a fifth column then dissolving the enemy from within. if you dont uproot them completely from society they will eventually metastasize like cancer and take over then entire country. you would rather cold storage 100 people wrongly than let one actual communist go. this is the same logic lky appraised tiananmen.
寧教我負天下人 休教天下人負我