re: "A right royal confusion" (Opinion, February 10)
Dear editor,
What the extraordinary events of recent days highlight is the sore need for the Thai people to know what the Thai people think about these issues. At the moment, they do not. This disrespects not only the entire Thai people, but the institutions involved, which as part of Thai tradition deserve to be known and respected as they are in fact known and respected. As every educator, scientist and other thinker knows, as even politicians well know, there is only one way to ascertain with any credibility how a people feel about any topic: conduct a well-run poll that returns reliable, credible percentages.
To arrogantly tell a person or people what they believe or feel about anything, certainly something truly important to them, without doing them the courtesy of asking for their opinion not only entails a grievous risk that the reported opinion or attitude being attributed to them absent any solid evidence is as mistaken as it is lacking in merit, but it is also the height of disrespectful presumption. The Thai people and their institutions deserve better.
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 February 11, 2019, under the title "Thais deserve better" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1627110/thais-deserve-better
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