re: "Call for more baby bumps" (BP, Editorial, February 18, 2021)
Dear editor,
It's all very well to call "for solid measures to quickly boost the birth rate and stabilize demographic development," but Thai women are making rational, informed choices not to have children.
When brutish authorities use unjust law to lock up their children for daring to question a dubious status quo, the sensible choice is not to bring children into such a society. When gross wealth inequality driven by repeated coups against the Thai people allows abuse by the rich and powerful who support the injustices of coups, the morally right choice is to remain childless. When those with vast wealth preach "sufficiency economics" whilst doling out niggardly pittances from their own vast wealth, for which they expect boundless praise in return, not to have children is a rational choice. When seeking and speaking truths about Thai society is proscribed by anti-democratic law, good people will abstain from inflicting life on the children who must suffer it should they be born into such a traditionally backward society.
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 20, 2021, under the title "No world for kids" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2071451/a-costly-delay
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