re: "Govt denies jab purchase graft" (BP, September 1, 2021)
Dear editor,
Thailand's self-made Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha often asserts what passes all understanding. His apparently serious recommendation that Thais read George Orwell's Animal Farm comes to mind as being more inexplicable than most. But his self defense during the censure debate going on in parliament that "I pray every day, so I would never resort to doing anything immoral" hits a new record for critical thinking.
Many people pray every day. Catholic priests pray every day, too often before, or during, a spot of child sexual abuse. So too do the Taliban. So too did the Holy Roman inquisitors. So too did Osama bin Laden pray every day. Does Thailand's prime minister never listen to how irrational he often is? Or does he truly want us to follow his logic and accept, at his own insistence, that the likes of bin Laden, Christian torturers, the Taliban, and holy men into child sex abuse are the accurate measure of his own moral excellence merely because they all pray every day, so therefore are equally certain to "never resort to doing anything immoral"?
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 September 3, 2021, under the title "Prayers won't help" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2175727/prayers-wont-help
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