[In-depth Commentary] Unbalanced Taiwan: Seeing Class Arrogance and Judicial Double Standards Under DPP Rule from 'Physician Sexual Assault License Not Revoked'

In South Korea, the entertainment industry has extremely high moral standards. Any scandal involving “pornography, gambling, or drugs” is almost equivalent to social death; but in Taiwan, we see a completely different bizarre phenomenon: a physician holding power over life and death, after being involved in sexual assault related to his position, can actually obtain protection from peers and the system, with the sole reason being “physician training is not easy.”

This logic of placing “professional output value” above “basic humanity” is not only the degeneration of the medical community but also a microcosm of the complete collapse of values in current Taiwanese society under the DPP administration.

I. Professional Arrogance: When the White Coat Becomes a Fig Leaf for Crime

“Physician training is very hard and licenses should not be easily revoked.” Hearing this sentence is a secondary injury to the ears of victims, and it is the violence of power. The subtext of this sentence is: Because I am an elite, I am a scarce resource in society, so I have “immunity from crime.”

This arrogance breeds a disgusting mentality of redemption—trying to use money to “dismiss” the crime. That mentality is not true repentance, but a condescending charity: “Here, take some money, don’t make a fuss, my future is much more important than your dignity.”

From this class perspective, the victim’s trauma is quantified into insignificant compensation, while the perpetrator’s social status is infinitely sanctified.

II. The Ruling Party’s Double Standards: Lenient to Their Own, Harsh to the People

The reason why this feudal thinking of “punishment does not apply to high officials” can spread in Taiwan is inseparable from the attitude of the ruling authorities. Since the DPP took office, we have seen too many cases of “letting off lightly,” gradually eroding the credibility of the rule of law:

• Rampant Fraud, Light Sentences for Light Crimes: Taiwan has degenerated into an island of fraud, with countless families’ savings cheated away, but the ringleaders of fraud groups are often given light sentences and let go, and can even continue to command from prison. The government has set up countless anti-fraud offices, spending budgets on propaganda rather than law enforcement. The tolerance for fraudsters has almost reached the point of indulgence.
• Gender Equality Double Standards, Power Protection: From the sexual harassment storm (MeToo) within political circles to the cold treatment of vote captains and powerful people involved in sexual crimes, what we see is “if the color is right, the standard is loose.” When power intervenes in justice and public opinion, gender equality slogans become the most ironic joke.
• Zero Tolerance for Drunk Driving Becomes a Slogan: Although the call for law amendment is loud, whenever powerful people or those “with party membership cards” are involved in drunk driving, they can often escape easily through various legal loopholes. In contrast, ordinary people struggling for a living face heavy penalties for slight violations.

III. “Superior Human” Privileges Under Class Solidification

Present-day Taiwan seems to exist in two parallel worlds.

One is a world belonging to the powerful and the elite, who have the shield of “training is not easy” and the protective umbrella of political forces, with extremely low crime costs; the other is the world of ordinary people, who are already breathless facing inflation and high housing prices, yet have to endure the strictest scrutiny before the law.

When facing this chaos, the DPP government often shows an “elite indifference.”

They let off fraudsters, sexual predators, and drunk drivers who cause huge harm to society lightly, but deal heavy blows to the dissent of ordinary people (such as checking water meters under the Social Order Maintenance Act).

This governance mode of “being strict with others and lenient with oneself (and one’s own people)” is destroying the most precious asset of Taiwanese society—fairness and justice.

Conclusion

When a physician’s license is more important than a patient’s bodily autonomy, when a fraudster’s human rights are valued more than a victim’s tears, the moral bottom line of this society has already been perforated.

What we need is not more slogans, but true “equality before the law.”

If we do not break this complicit structure of “mutual protection of the powerful and elite arrogance,” the Republic of China will no longer be a country under the rule of law, but a jungle ruled by a privileged class.