re: "No more nepotism" (BP, Editorial, June 23, 2022)
Dear editor,
It must be conceded that Senate Speaker Pornpetch Wichitcholchai is perfectly correct that "there are no laws prohibiting senators from hiring next-of-kin." Neither can it be denied that such practices are alleged to have comported with Thai social norms for many generations.
It does not, however, follow from this legality and claimed social acceptance that Thailand's august Senate Speaker is right to therefore defend the blatant nepotism. As always, the facts that something has been traditional for generations and is blessed by the law are irrelevant to its moral worth. The systemic nepotism sufficiently lauded by the unelected speaker of the senate is but another pillar of the legalized corruption practiced by Thai political players making up law to preserve corrupt moral practices and their alleged social norms. As such, it is but one more example of an allegedly venerated practice of many generations that should be smashed in accord with democratic principle consistent with moral decency.
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 July 3, 2022, under the title "All in the family" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2338702/scouts-dishonour
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