re: "Court to rule on PM's eligibility" (BP, July 6)
Dear editor,
Whilst true as Jade Donavanik, former adviser to the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), says in "Court to rule on PM's eligibility" (Bangkok Post, July 6) that "the Constitutional Court ruling will be binding" legally, it is important to remember that such a legal precedent is subject to the caveat that applies to all law: merely being legal confers neither rightness nor justice.
If the law itself is corrupt and unjust, then rulings correctly made in strict accord with that law inherit the underlying moral corruption and injustice. It is because they know this that good people seek to reform bad law.
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 July 7, 2019, under the title "Good people bad laws" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1708218/good-people-bad-laws
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