| > I didn't say the laws don't exist No but you suggested that they can be treated as non existent because of lax enforcement/punishment, and then go on to complain about other people (apparently an entire country at that!) not following them - if you don't agree the laws should be followed, why are you complaining about other people not following them? > How you went from my observations of life in Thailand to calling me a sexpat says something about you It's generally sexpats who come to Thailand for some "brown strange", make no effort to learn anything about the culture or the people, and make sweeping generalisations, exactly like you have done. > Maybe I'm generalizing about the Thai attitude about the law, but you can observe it every day all over Thailand. It's no more a generalization than saying Thais like spicy food. The irony here is at level: ridiculous. Have you ever met any Thai people and actually spoken to them? Let me make it crystal clear in case you can't work it out: Not every Thai is a bad driver Not every Thai flaunts laws/rules Not every Thai enjoys or can even eat spicy food Not every Thai is just a poor brown girl/boy waiting for a "rich" white prince to make her/his life better. |
Also I can't read or "work out" what smarter and better-informed people like stephenr mean, I need it spelled out, in English. I am not equipped to understand or respond to the close reading and careful parsing of language stephenr has demonstrated.
Actually I've never even been to Thailand, I made everything up. Kudos to stephenr for deducing so much from my comments and exposing me, calling me out on my delusions, and setting the record straight.