Tai Ji Men

At the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion yearly meeting, a panel examined the problems caused by a “science without conscience” and an unjust tax system.

Fundamental principles of law were violated by Taiwan’s bureaucrats. Rectifying the injustice should always be possible. 

The question still resounds with no answer sixteen years after the Supreme Court of the Republic of China ruled that all accusations against Tai Ji Men were inconsistent.

A session of the 37th conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religions was dedicated to FoRB problems in Taiwan in comparative perspective.

Parliamentarism is the worst form of government except for all the others. But it may degrade into tyranny of the majority as the Tai Ji Men case shows all too well.

As a patent attorney, the author understands the need for private and public integrity and for putting together science and conscience. It did not happen in the Tai Ji Men case.

Taiwan’s economic development finds an obstacle in its idiosyncratic tax system, which also affected spiritual movements, including Tai Ji Men.

The tax case of Tai Ji Men offers evidence that both transitional justice and anti-corruption measures in Taiwan still have serious flaws.

The local assemblies of “decuriones” made the Roman Empire great and victorious. Tax injustice destroyed them—and the Empire itself.