Please don't make out that Thailand is any way worse than other nation.

This is what Michael jumped on and he's not at all wrong to do so. This is the tack taken by the Neocons in the USA under Bush/Cheney... "Hey, we're not as bad as the Nazis..." and by the defenders of Israeli's genocide in Palestine... "Hey, look who's talking. Who killed all the American Indians and stole their land?!"

Someone else's crime can never "justify" one's own. My mother taught me that at a "tender" age. It seems to be a natural proclivity of immature minds to seize upon this excuse. Or to hold it out for other immature minds to eagerly grasp hold of, in defense of their own recalcitrance.

But I'm sure you did not mean to push the argument to its extreme as do those cited above, Ashley. I'm sure you merely meant to remind all the non-Thais here that we are criticizing our human shortcomings, not our Thai shortcomings.