What has been happening now is no solution to a drug problem though. It will only push it more underground, likely making it more lucrative for the big players. Of the 1900 dead so far, 800 have been killed by police forces, 1100 by unknown people. You really think that all the bullet riddled and cut up corpses with cardboard signs saying 'I am a drug dealer' were really drug dealers? Chances are that significant part of them were just victims of completely drug unrelated crime. Duterte basically just legalized killing each other for everyone, as long as you make sure to leave a cardboard sign.
>___> This is the part where I bop you for assuming my stance. (And pretty much having an incomplete idea of it but making conclusions)
That was my point. 
(And incomplete news to me) Those who were tagged
can not be justified as such because of the background. This also includes the context of those enacting such events; this includes people who have grudges, those who are in private militias, those who are police officers themselves--it's very vague and muddled. Because you have to assume the context.
Duterte didn't "legalize" killing each other. That act of killing those people
is illegal and nowhere should it be said that it is legal. He made this a point WHEN he did speak against drug pushers and the like. I made the note of 'killing drug pushers' an
extremely blunt one because that doesn't
make it legal because
there is context towards what he said about it--and what is being made within legal terms about it. Taking matters merely by words alone will bring a lot of misconception (ie If you take every crude saying as "YES LET'S DO THIS. GO SIGNAL IS GO.", it'll mess up everything. That's not how this works.)
Either it's the lack of looking into what the news reports or just reliance on the media to bring the whole story that gives off that impression--but ever since the first time it was reported in our news about those cardboard justice events,
we haven't thought along that one line of reasoning you put down there.Maaaan. <_< That wording. Rather than assuming what the other person is saying and responding to that assumption, discuss what's going on. (Although I read the 'you' as in referring to me rather than the public 'you' in an interrogative/questioning way so...wording >.<). Basic thing is, that cardboard justice is pretty obvious that it's something
immature given the legal proceedings nowadays. "Slap a tag on them, they're guilty and the dead can't justify themselves [leave it to their family, {implication #2}, etc...]"
Edit: This thread is a lot less hilarious than is advertised. It's more... Bleakly distressing. 
It's
how it's going. Something best handled without the recent way of discussing it (because it's utterly complex and people are working on it :v
and I've a lot to say about it but am not because argh. I'd also be mentioning that martinuzz' comment towards possibly-me about that assumption is, culturally, indecent in the least, and ignorant at best. We as Filipinos aren't standing by while this happens. While the rest of the world may see this as the tip of the iceberg, we are in the bloody iceberg.)
Martin is incomplete--because the media reports do not have exacts; this lack of exacts brings across assumptions, and in dealing with delicate issues, may be 'hyped'. Which is ANNOYINGLY what's going on in many places that dwarf what's really happening <_<
People should take an educated rather than a reactive stance to this. Awareness is a core value that will help a lot, and knowledge of using this awareness is the next step.
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