Start from home
Re: "Can we design universal access to compassion?", (Opinion, March 19).
Design alone cannot guarantee compassion. As practical experience shows, even well-intentioned accessibility frameworks often fall short when they overlook the deeper dimensions of human connection and inclusion. Compassion must be cultivated through relationships -- beginning with intergenerational solidarity within families and communities, where empathy is first learned and transmitted.
From there, the ethic of compassion can expand outward -- into institutions, societies, and ultimately reaching the global arena.
Without such solidarity, any attempt to universalise compassion risks remaining only rhetorical rather than real. In short, universal access to compassion cannot be engineered top-down; it must be built from the ground up -- across generations, and across borders.
Ioan Voicu
Lucrative gig
Re: "Large fuel stash found in secret site", (BP, March 12) & "Energy woes 'will escalate'", (BP, March 22).
Thank you for reporting on March 12 that 30,000 litres of diesel kept in unregistered private storage was discovered in Mahawan, in Tak's Mae Sot district.
This month, the Post reported the Tatmadaw -- Myanmar's military -- is bombing Karen villages near this border.
The junta and the Karen are fighting to have access to Thai subsidised diesel.
Exports to Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines -- nations most likely to run out of oil first due to their lack of refineries and a reliance on Chinese oil product -- have now halted by Beijing. I would also add Cambodia and Laos to this grouping.
On Saturday, the Post quoted Korn Chatikavanij as saying oil subsidies now cost Thailand 1.3 billion baht per day.
From Feb 27 to March 20 the wholesale diesel price in Singapore has gone up by 26 baht per litre.
Smugglers, the public should be aware, can now make a killing moving diesel into Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.
AM Phuket
Inaccurate claim
Re: "Trump's Iran quagmire could sink America", (Opinion, March 19).
One of my favourite Warren Buffett quotes is: "Any business that employs an economist has one employee too many."
In this hit piece, MIT Professor of Economics Daron Acemoglu writes today's instalment of Operation Sabotage (which blasts anything that President Trump does).
Of all the things to say about the CIA's toppling of Iran's prime minister in 1953, the economics professor apparently doesn't know that Iran, under the Shah, soon after experienced rapid economic growth over the following two decades and before the 1979 revolution became the 18th-largest economy in the world.
Funny that.
Eddie Delzio
Bias, alright
Re: "One-sided match", (PostBag, March 22).
Fred Prager bemoans the lack of men's tennis coverage by True Sports, suggesting perhaps there is a gender bias.
Given that men's tennis broadcast rights probably cost double those of the women's equivalent, I would suggest the "gender bias" starts right there.
Tarquin Chufflebottom
