re: "Dhamma helps inmates accept fate" (BP, May 29, 2022)
Dear editor,
Rather than sending in a monk to teach death-row inmates to "accept their destiny" as imposed by the Thai state, perhaps Thai authorities should instead follow the Buddha's teaching and stop their habit of deliberately killing people. Killing by the state according to law made up to do so serves no good purpose. It does, however, teach the message that such extreme violence is an appropriate response to a perceived problem, a lesson that humans readily follow. Would it not be better for the law to set the the more challenging but socially healthy example taught by the Buddha?
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, 2022, under the title "Down with death" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2317906/army-fatigue
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