re: "Shaming the lawbreakers" (BP, January 30, 2022)
Dear editor,
The great weakness with the theory that shaming lawbreakers might work is that the Thai people too faithfully follow the example set from on high. There is, first, the illustrious example of the most happy story of the righteous Capt. Thamanat Prompow, who has been not so much shamed as seriously honoured; but that elevating story of a man unquestionably great in the Thai way is merely a follow-up detail in the greater example set by his own moral exemplars.
When those who commit, collude in, and enable coups against the Thai nation fail to show any decent shame whatsoever for their high and mighty deeds against the Thai people's popular form of democratic government, how could it be expected that anyone will feel deterred by shame for any lesser acts legally deemed crimes?
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 5, 2022, under the title "Moral maze" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2259215/maximum-overload
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