re: "Democracy, but not Thai style please" (Opinion, May 2)
Dear editor,
It is a Thai-style happiness that Soonruth Bunyamee should need to remind us in "Democracy, but not Thai style please" (Opinion, May 2) that democracy is founded on the moral imperative that all citizens have an equal right to a voice in the form of their society, its institutions and its government, an ethical ideal that is necessarily opposed to the principles and practices of every dictatorship, however Thai-style well-intentioned that regime proclaims itself.
Like any such self-respecting semantic unit that proudly puts itself first, the prefix Thai-style functions to modify in a consistent way the meaning of the following root idea. Thai-style traffic flow is a jam. Thai-style honesty is censorship of truth. Thai-style respect is forced grovelling. Thai-style Buddhism is unBuddhist. Thai-style punctuality is lateness. Thai-style justice is injustice. Thai-style good morals are bad morals. Even someone afflicted by a Thai-style education understands what Thai-style democracy is.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on May 3, 2018, under the title "Thai-style injustice" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1457113/thai-style-injustice
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