Commenting on Our Singapore Conversation, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan said: "Some may not like the open-endedness but I think for a conversation like the OSC, I think it's important for it not to be prescriptive. "The process becomes important where people would feel that even if they do not agree with the outcome and the recommendation, there is a sense that their views were taken into account, there was an attempt to explain why their views cannot be taken on board. "While outcomes are important, let's not let the outcomes make us blind to how the process is equally important in terms of trying to engender a consensus, in terms of trying to get people to understand what are some of the key concerns on the ground and where is the government also coming from."