ThaSalaPaul
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Visiting down and outs doesn't amount to preaching. What were they saying to the down and outs? Were you listening? My point really was that people don't go to temples to be or to show themselves as being good people. It's a totally different mindset that you seem to not have understood. Perhaps you haven't been in Thailand long or if you have you have not made much of an attempt to understand the culture
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Seems you have misunderstood such things as temple visits and have transferred your understanding of what that would mean with Christianity onto Buddhism. More often than not people will visit temples or shrines to ask for something (good luck in exams or finding a boyfriend etc). It rarely has much to do with piety. Hence you never see congregations and people preaching (Buddhist monks don't seek to lecture people)
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COVID-19 infections on the rise among people not fully vaccinated
ThaSalaPaul replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Proven you say? So where is this proof? You are more likely to find that the proof, proves the exact opposite. See below https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118 -
COVID-19 infections on the rise among people not fully vaccinated
ThaSalaPaul replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
But it is their civic duty to not willingly spread a virus that is potentially very harmful to some of those they come into contact with. What a selfish attitude. Do you also advocate that men with STD's should not have to bother wearing condoms? -
COVID-19 infections on the rise among people not fully vaccinated
ThaSalaPaul replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The main purpose of wearing a mask is not to protect the person wearing the mask, but rather to protect others from that person. It's amazing how many people still don't understand that. Similarly some people are proud to announce that they still go into work when they have a cold/flu, not caring that by doing so they will cause others to suffer too. -
COVID-19 infections on the rise among people not fully vaccinated
ThaSalaPaul replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Well that's disrespectful. You wearing a mask is not to protect you, but rather to protect others from you. -
It seems reasonable to infer from that comment that you choose to be just as bad as the people you are criticising, but sat on the other side of the fence. In a manner not unlike a belligerent child and not dissimilar to 2 bad guys shooting it out, neither of whom could reasonably expect to garnish much sympathy. I live in Thailand and enjoy living in Thailand. I have very positive feeligs towards Thailand and Thai people. But it doesn't mean I like ALL Thai people or think that ALL Thai people are "good" people. That would be naive in the extreme. Just as with all other countries on the planet, without exception, there are good and bad people and everything in between. An adult (or even a child for that matter) should not judge another person purely based upon where they are or are not from. Mercifully the rest of the world does not adopt your attitude, or we would all be at each other's throats
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The reason for wanting to know of any mitigating circumstances would be for the same reason a court of law would seek to find any. If you only see the world in black & white with no shades of grey then this may be difficult to understand. In the event that hypothetically someone is killed it is imperative to know the circumstances leading up to it. Was it cold blooded?, was it in self-defence? was it in anger but accidental?, was it purely accidental (negligent)? Whilst the person who caused the death may be 100% in the wrong, each of those "mitigating" circumstances I just mentioned would result in totally different sentences being administered (sentences administered by courts being a reflection of society's view of those circumstances). Ergo mitigating circumstances are very important I don't see that people rushing to judge others based on a limited grasp of the facts is much different to lynch mob attitudes. For me personally, the fact that a person requires hospitalisation puts the perpetrator in the wrong. The degree of "how" wrong is dependent upon the mitigating circumstances, and these we don't know. I would not like to pass judgement on either one of them without knowing the full facts