re: "THAI union leader slams pilots' lack of 'the right spirit'" (BP, October 22)
Dear editor,
Thai Airways International labour union president is right on both counts: the pilots who wilfully damaged their employer, their nation, and paying customers had a legal right according to the rule of law to a first class seat, but good morals demanded that they not exercise that purely legal entitlement.
Exactly the same is true of politicians and those playing at politics. Thaksin had, for example, along with Singapore's morally challenged leaders among others, a strictly legal right to file law suits to stifle opinions found offensive, but healthy moral norms for a democracy ask such people to refrain from using the force of law to protect themselves from insults and other abuse, however tasteless or of dubious veracity.
Thai International's pilots, it appears, have learned all too well their selfishly bad morals from the example of Thai political leaders, past and present. The spirit of the Buddha's teachings is better than this arrogant imposition under the guise of strict legalism that contradicts good morals.
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 October 24, 2018, under the title "Moral quagmire" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1563406/bell-tolls-for-coups
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