Prof. Dr. Likhit Dhiravegin
Fellow of the Royal Institute
Man or system, which element is more important? This can be an endless debate and both arguments of one being more important than the other can be both correct and incorrect. It is a chicken and egg argument. A renowned legal expert in Thailand said definitively that man was more important because it would take a good man to come up with a good system. But he simply forgot that it would take a good system to screen for a good ad capable man. How can a good man just pop out of the blue? What he meant was probably a good man just came by to take the mission. That is based upon a big assumption. An assumption is a folly argument because it is assumed that a certain condition is present, a good man. What if there is no such a man? The question is how can we come up with a good man save for luck if the system cannot do the screening process or cannot nurture such a personality? This is going nowhere and it will become a circular argument, a good man to produce a good system or a good system to nurture a good man.