Sadly, BlueRider must seriously think that he is doing the Malay race a big favour by actively advocating race discrimination in the form of special rights and privileges for all Malays, be they rich or poor, on a permanent basis.

Surely, BlueRider must realise that race discrimination has long been discredited as a repugnant, futile and counter-productive ploy undertaken by myopic, self-serving politicians for the long term. Some points:

It devalues the worth and achievement, however rightly or wrongly, of every single member of the race that it is supposed to benefit;

It gives rise to the devaluation of Malaysia as a country to be seriously reckoned with in the globalised world stage;

The country can only end up with all manner of sub-standard doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, teachers, bureaucrats, politicians etc - a prospect that can only send shivers down the spine of every savvy and true patriot as well as any Malaysian in need of world-class medical treatment.

Regretfully, there is no such thing as a free lunch in the real world, BlueRider. Whilst someone has to pay for it in the interim, everyone has to pay for it in the end.