re: "Protest banner leads regional police chief to shave his head" (BP, February 3, 2021)
Dear editor,
I must confess that I read with some interest, liberally tempered with sincere credulity, the explanation given by the commissioner of the Royal Thai Police's (RTP) Provincial Police Region 3 that it was necessary, among other decisive deeds, to shave his head because "Police must cherish the royal institution, with the highest respect." Although it is not obvious how shaving one's head manifests the cherishing with the highest respect of an institution, there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of the assertion. Let it be accepted that it is thus.
And that logically compels a most compelling implication, to wit, that the traditional acts and deeds thereof that express the values of the Royal Thai Police do also manifest cherishing the royal institution. The Royal Thai Police, like other institutions wont to invoke the same institution, would seem, therefore, to imply with strict logic that those acts and behaviours for which they are rightly renowned constitute manifestations of cherishing that institution with the highest respect — an interesting take on what gives the RTP and sibling institutions their well-deserved reputations.
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 4, 2021, under the title "More than a shave" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2062367/a-lesson-for-suu-kyi
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