re: "'High heels mob' wants wage relief from state" (BP, December 23, 2021)
Dear editor,
It is encouraging to see another group of informed Thai citizens peacefully protesting for justice. Thailand's famous sex workers are yet another group who suffer the real harm that comes from bad policy leading to unjust law at the behest of hypocritical social values.
The men with power and money want to buy sex cheap by exploiting the poor, but at the same time want to pretend to be against such behaviour. That dishonest pretence of bowing before a morally rotten social tyranny (as the great John Stuart Mill put it) leads to the very real evil of actual harm being inflicted on many - all those who work honestly in Thailand's traditional sex industry serving the hypocrites in suits, uniforms, and other gaudy get up.
Their work should be legal and respected as any other labour freely chosen, from lawyering and cooking to engineering and teaching. They should be paying taxes. And in hard times, they deserve the same assistance from the state as any other group of Thai citizens.
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 December 24, 2021, under the title "Equal rights" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2237091/equal-rights
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