Is It Right or Wrong?

Two days ago, I saw news posted that a teacher of a university in Bangkok forced one of his female students to do oral sex for him so that this student can get a high grade for his subject. And right now this teacher has been arrested for his obscenity or immoral conduct. For this news, it is a quite strange relationship between a teacher and his female student. This event happens without love. But there is an interesting point about the relationship between a teacher and a female student, but with love.

In Thailand, it is well known that the relationship involve with romance between a teacher and a female student is not acceptable, no matter a school teacher or a university professor. Teachers are expected not to make a passionate commitment with their students. But in reality, love can happen to every person with every occupation. And love can happen to a teacher and a student as well. For this point, it is unacceptable. Why?

In my opinion, I don’t think that a teacher and a student cannot love each other. It is their rights to do. But in Thailand the teacher who commits such commitment is not acceptable and is blamed for his immoral commitment by members of society. Is it fair for him? Is it just because only one word “Teacher” that prohibits him and his girl to do such commitment? I don’t think they should be blamed. Love can be occurred between them if they do the right things that are considered not to break morality. Why does just only this occupation have to be blamed? How about other occupation?

It is right saying that teachers are models of their students. But are those teachers human being? Yes, they are human being. They can feel love as much as the others do. Right? The problem is how they deal with this feeling. Someone said that a teacher should not have a passionate with his student. But are those teachers wrong? And if that is a real love between a teacher and his student, does he have to quit his occupation just because he is a teacher? Is that a reasonable reason? How about other people in other occupation? Why aren’t they blamed? What happen to those teachers?
Why do they have to be limited their rights just because of only one word “teacher”?


In your opinion, do you think love between a teacher and a student can be formed up? Is it suitable? Do you have any idea about it?

Posted by Photchana

Tragic Young Love

Two or three months ago I watched the news on television and they talked about a Mattayom 5 boy who poured petrol on his girlfriends face and set light to her because she had told him she did not want to go out with him anymore. She survived but is very badly scarred. He did this in the canteen in front of everyone. His parents were very shocked. They said he was a good boy who had not been violent before and even her parents did not think he would ever do something so violent. What a tragedy. The girl is scarred for life and the boy is in jail. Two young people have had their lives ruined. How could this happen? I can not understand it. Why was the boy so serious about a young romance? Did he not know that he could find another girlfriend? Or is it more than that? Is it because schools and teenagers are becoming more violent? Many times I have seen reports about teenage gangs fighting with other schools.
The story made me very sad because I think it should not have happened. I think it could have been avoided. Surely someone like his family or friends or even his teachers could have seen this problem coming and could have helped the boy before he did this terrible thing. Being a teenager can be a difficult time. Many teenagers are confused about their emotions and often can not see past their own immediate problems. The boy needed help and advice to make him understand that young love can be difficult. Somebody should have told him that he could have found happiness again with another girl. Young people need help and understanding to help them through the difficult teenage years. What do you think? Is there any way this tragedy could have been avoided and is there a way to prevent something like this happening again?


Posted by Aekorn Sampson

What a waste!

It will be Songkran time again soon. What does it mean? Lots of people throwing water and having fun. But I can’t stop myself thinking of the hundreds of people who will die in road accidents again, just as hundreds died last year and the year before that. And it is not just at Songkran time, it is during every big holiday festival. Most of the people who die are young people. They die before they can live their lives. Who knows what these young people could have done if they had not died early. Every year we see the numbers of dead and injured printed in a newspaper or on the television. But they are not just a statistic, they are real people and their deaths are completely unnecessary. How many of us know someone who had died on a motorcycle or in a car?

I think we all know people who have died early in their lives. Something must be done to stop this. Every year the government and the police say they will do this or do that, but it can not be working because every year hundreds and hundreds die. How can we educate people so that they know not to drink alcohol and then ride their bikes or drive their cars. They need to know how important it is to wear a crash helmet on a motorbike. It is against the law to drink alcohol and drive a car or ride a bike. It is against the law to ride a bike without a helmet. But people are still doing it. Everyday you see people doing stupid things on their bikes or in their cars. Why are these laws not strictly enforced?

If the police really did enforce these laws, think of the money that could be raised by fining people and then this money could be used to educate people of all ages about the need to be safe on the road. Then maybe we might be able to stop this stupid waste of life.

What do you think about this? Let' s share some opinions.

Posted by Aekorn Sampson

A Crucial Way Out

I have read recent news that woman killed herself by jumping from 25m building. The news said that this pretty woman finished a degree at a top 3 university in Thailand with honor. She also got job as a teacher in a famous university. But she decided to suicide because she just failed from broken heart. This news let me think that people are now risk and easy to get the mental illness that they cannot control the feeling of themselves when they need to be under pressure.
In highly competitive condition, people seem to live with pressure, particularly the teenager. One example is the expectation from their families. The children are expected to entry in the famous university or study in the top 10 faculties, etc. To be under that pressure allows them to think about killing themselves especially when they are failed and disappointed on what they highly expect. The feeling of suicidal may cause from trying to escape a feeling of rejection, hurt or loss from something.

Certainly, that feeling is difficult emotion to control. A depression bring people to the feeling of losing the possibility of good outcome and believing they will never be happy or things will never go right for them. The result goes on that, depressed people decide to get the way out by committing a suicide.
Committing suicide might be a good way for those weakly people. How’s about the feeling of their family or friend after losing a friend or relative?? They are supposed to stay on the suffering for long time. As my relative who lost her daughter by committing a suicide, she told me that her life seems to end up as her daughter. She does not have any hope to live in this real world. A pain from that event remains in her heart till now. Accordingly, I think the people killing themselves are so mean because they do not only hurt themselves but also people who love them.
Sometime, I think that people who commit a suicide are so weak even I do not know any feeling in deep of their heart. I also think that they are escaping the problem in the wrong way. How’s about you friends? How do you feel toward the people commit a suicide? Let me know OK? ..... ^0^

Should we keep or leave them?

One of the serious problem that is facing Thai society is abortion. This subject is a very controversial subject that has been argued over and over. Abortion is th destruction of the fetus or unbornchild while the child still in the mother's womb. However, in the society, there are two sides of this abortion topic, the PRO-LIFE, the person who against abortion or the PRO-CHOICE, the person who believe it is the woman's right to choose whether she wants to have an abortion.

These two groups offer different soulutions to this problem. The pro-life solution is to save the baby's life and let them grow. They believe abortion is not a good answer to avoid the ashame action. In contrast, the pro-choice solution is, every woman has her rights to make decision to take an unwanted pragnancy. However, from the nowadays news, the trend of abortion seems to be the pro-choice group since most Thai women decided to leave the child out of their lives. Although. the pro-choice group has their own reason and perspective for abortion, there are many affects occur, such as mental sickness, physical suffering and disease. Moreover, for Buddhists, destroying other's life is as a sin, which is greatly immoral.

Doing abortion causes many great effects, the aftermath of doing this immoral actions gives much suffering the doer. Therefore, is it good to kill an innocent baby because he or she is as a person that we don't want?

Let's share some idea...Which sides are you stand for, Pro-Life or Pro-choice?

Post by *Oa Chayanit T.

Should we live together?

Nowadays, living together as husband and wife before marriage seems to be acceptable in Thai society. However, if we look back in the past of Thai society, twenty years ago, living together before marriage was not acceptable at all in Thai society. People in the old generation had their own idea against this idea. It might because they lived in Thai society where they absorbed Thai culture and tradition against living together before marriage since they were born and because their ancestors taught them the value of social norms. They spent many years to learn their couple’s behavior, habit, and did the right things that the society expected them. In addition, the shame played a big role at that time. Women were expected to do the right things that belonged to social norms, and be ashamed for what they did against Thai social norms. Moreover, those who broke the social norms would be condemned from members of that society. It seemed to be a serious judgement for them. In order to avoid any criticism, people in the past chose to follow social norms, and lived with Thai tradition and culture.

On the other hand, living together seems to be a modern idea for new generation. Thai society is likely to accept this idea more than in the past. Currently, if we look around our society, living together seems to be very popular in ages of people teenagers, especially who haven’t finished school yet. One reason might be because they have to study in the place that is far away from their home and parents. Most of them thought that it is like a good way to learn each other. Many of them thought that they do so to save money. They could save the same amount living with same gender friends. They believe they can test the relationship in a "trial marriage."

Some women see it as a step toward marriage while men don’t think so.

Basically, living together is a way to adapt themselves to their couple. Some people thought that they won’t get pressure from any expectation of perfection. If problems occur, it occurs just only two people, not involve with any one in case of feeling, physical and mental abuse. If a person who they are living with is not a real one, they can find another one whom they consider as their real love without any obligation.

For some people who live together think that it is like a good way to achieve some of the benefits of marriage and avoid the risk of divorce.

This is happening in Thai society. The question is “Does it suit to Thai society? Is it too much acceptable? Or are there any impact from living together before marriage to our society?”
How do you think about this issue?

Posted by Photchana (JJ)

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