The Missing Moral Dimension
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Many areas of our social fabric today are fashioned by policies which are largely materially efficient and technically sound. These sectors can be as diverse as economic growth and technopreneurship as well as health and education. Despite the characteristic progress that we see or are expected to see with such policies, there is however, for me, an uneasy feeling that something is missing, something fairly vital: a dimension that also pays heed to graciousness within and between individuals, a dimension that, though it may not immediately and directly result in revenue, efficiency or productivity, is crucial, in the longer run and indirectly, for these same objectives. I believe that our government is also aware of this missing dimension in our society as exemplified by our Prime Minister's recent analysis regarding the need to develop graciousness in our society:
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