re: "Dozens arrested in raid on gay 'chemsex' party" (BP, May 24, 2021)
Dear editor,
It might not have been entirely sensible for the group of healthy men driven by human chemicals to have held that particular sex party at this particular time; but like all of us, they are humans who cannot but do what nature's inexorable laws mediated by chemistry and physics determine humans will do.
More entirely not quite right is the description of Thailand as "being a largely conservative Buddhist society." It is conservative, certainly: indoctrination in unreflective conservatism is a pillar of the status quo that coups are committed to protect.
The adjective "conservative", however, flatly contradicts being Buddhist. The Buddha constantly modified his own beliefs and principles throughout his life as he sought greater understanding of the world and our position in it. As science also teaches us, it is the height of religious hubris to think some final, absolute truth has been arrived at and to thereafter reject all further progress in understanding the chemistry and physics ordained by nature to make us the humans that we are. Claims reflecting presumptions of infallibility or moral perfection are profoundly unBuddhist.
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 May 30, 2021, under the title "It's just human nature" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2123871/jabs-are-a-mass-experiment
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