volunteering?

If you aren't concerned about what I'm doing for the first 120 hours out of the 168 hours of the week, why makes you think that I ought to be disclosing the reason(s) why I am unavailable for the 44 hours out of the remaining 48 hours of the week, which in the first place the 4 hours were made available on a voluntary free-will basis?  (and the other 3 weeks of the month  as well) [My boss doesn't even question why we applied for annual leave if the leave period does not clash with the peak period because she knew that we are matured and wise enough not to take VL during the peak /crucial period. Not to mention, these VL are paid leave. ] Yet, in situation when one volunteers one's free time to do something out of free will, one is still obliged to EXPLAIN & ACCOUNT why the other time are not freed up as well, it doesn't make sense. I mean,  why do I need to explain & account for the time in which belongs uhm to me (in a way, unless you are He who creates time.) If you argue that you are in a principal-agency relationship with the Creator, you win.

But really, inspirational rationale such as this scheme was implemented because it was in the framework of the higher authority to groom you guys to be like those of the higher scheme.

It just removes the joy out of the volunteering when you simply ask the reason and don't really bother to find out the underlying reason. Frankly, if I don't want to do it, there is no way you can force me to do it. But out of politeness, I obliged.

Relationship precedes authority. Get it? I answered simply because I respect the authority. Period. Perhaps that's what the (old school) sg education system has inculcated in me. Do not challenge the authority.

I don't welcome dictatorship nor am I a Nazi fan. Nope, hail not Adolph Hitler.