Quote: (08-03-2016 03:07 PM)GlobalMan Wrote:
Quote: (08-03-2016 02:48 PM)username Wrote:
The Philippines has just fucked itself trying to clean itself up.
I don't know if this is the way or not, it certainly is unsavory, but what other way would have any results in a place that is as fucked up as the Phils? It's a completely different world to the West.
With that level of deeply rooted societal corruption and crime, and poverty, how would one make a dent otherwise? No amount of initiatives or programs have done shit or will do shit.
How should they take back control? How much longer should the domination of criminal gangs and terrorists be allowed to stand and destroy the country further?
When you have islamic terrorists, political bombings, entire sections of the police force corrupt, insane drug gangs.. it's a state of emergency, and this is the response to that.
It may very well end up having the opposite effect, we'll have to see, but this has been going on in Davao well before now and as far as we can tell it hasn't been a mess of killings over land and other things as suggested, it has mostly worked as intended.
On principle I don't like the idea of this at all, but I'm not a Filipino enduring the horrible shit they've had to put up with for years. If the whole country turns into a Davao, it can only be good for the citizens.
I imagine in a small city like Davao, a Mayor can monitor the executioners more closely to make sure the right people are getting wiped out for the right reasons, but I'm not sure how well that kind of "quality control" can be administered on a larger scale with much more territory/people/players involved.
Either way, it's certainly a low-level reactionary method to dealing with crime. They really are shooting and asking questions later, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, etc.
Maybe when a country has devolved into such lawlessness it's the only solution that appears? I don't know. Davao certainly felt safe to me a couple years ago, but so did Makati/The Fort.
It's unimaginable for me to think of summary executions being the de-facto state here in America. But here, the quality of life is so good that most people don't want to risk losing their freedom, even if it's just for a few years. Also the legal system is so developed here the chances of getting caught and prosecuted are quite good.
Why can't that happen in the Philippines? Is it because the police/prosecutors/judges are all corrupt? Laws aren't strict enough?
If that's the case, it would seem killing the drug dealers/users won't solve the real problem, but maybe the President will be addressing the corruption also. Will those corrupt Police/Prosecutors/Judges/Politicians be summarily executed as well? I wonder.
The problem I see with all of it is that people are going to shape up only because they have the threat of the sword at their neck.
It reminds me of the Radical Islamist's claim of moral superiority over the West, but their morality is a false one because it's only achieved while the blade is resting so close to their jugular.
Only when you're free to sin without the threat of immediate death, but choose not to sin anyway does a person achieve some kind of true morality. The West maybe the Vortex of immorality spewing out into the world, and I don't deny that, but at least it's a place where one can be free to make mistakes, and learn/grow from them.
I've known several people who've been in jail for drug dealing and have come out changed men. I guess I just don't view drugs as a sin worth executing someone over.