Lin Wan-i, a professor of social work at National Taiwan University who served as deputy chief executive of Taipei County from 1999 and as minister without portfolio in the cabinet from 2006, appeals to intellectuals not to forsake their commitment to action. "Politics is an important arena in which to pursue enlightened reform," he says. "Intellectuals shouldn't abandon it."
對此，曾於 1999 及 2006 年分別出任台北縣副縣長及行政院政務委員的台大社工系教授林萬億，提出知識分子的「行動」思考：「『政治』是啟蒙改革的一個重要場域，知識分子不該放棄。」