I know I haven’t been updating this blog because I’m too lazy. Years 2 and 3 have been an exciting flurry of business (both work and busy-ness). I constantly spew bite-sized thoughts that stream into my mind on Instagram Stories anyway, and I am remarkably easily bored and excitable, so longer, more considered pieces on Blogger aren’t sustainable. I digress. Many exciting life updates! I’m now officially done with my undergraduate PPE programme at King’s College London. I loved every bit of it: the depth, rigour and intellectual intensity of the course, the international student community, the bustling city of London and all the travel opportunities around Europe. Words can’t do justice to the profundity of the experience. In typical Quincean fashion, I milked everything I could out of the three years: went to Cumberland Lodge (for free) as a photographer with the Philosophy Department in Years 1 and 3, clinched the Principal’s Global Leadership Award (PGLA) in my second year (spending
Section 377A, Penal Code (Cap. 224). Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years. By the First Schedule of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68), an offence under Section 377A of the Penal Code (Cap. 224) is ordinarily arrestable without a warrant. Introduction 2018 has been a year of much public debate regarding Section 377A, sparked by the Penal Code Review as well as the comments of many public intellectuals including Professor Tommy Koh, Professor Walter Woon and Mr Ho Kwon Ping. For convenience, I shall call the people who want to retain 377A the "Retainers", and the people who want to repeal 377A the "Repealers". The objective of this article is to expose weaknesses in the arguments of the Retainers, espe