re: "Protests must be heeded" (BP, Editorial, July 23, 2020)
Dear editor,
The intelligent, educated, morally aware young Thais, and their less young supporters, are right that Thailand deserves constitutional reform. A healthy start to constitutional amendment would be to revise the sections of the constitution that currently undermine it so that free speech has solid legal protection from suppression. That protection is foundational to democracy. As much as democracy, good morals also require that a people, even the Thai people, be able to seek, to speak, and to know important truths about their nation that errors may be corrected and new paths explored, something that is currently too often criminal for Thais trapped in the domestic coconut shell. If reality is ugly, inconvenient, or otherwise upsetting of cherished fake claims, so much the worse for those fake claims. Wilfully clinging to fake beliefs is not a healthy way to live; it is morally corrupt.
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 24, 2020, under the title "Open your mind" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1956655/make-students-good
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