By Bayawanon
The people would like to have changed in the society, but change cannot come without violence nowadays. Killings are happening in the name of change, and it seems like the people are applauding the efforts of the government in purging the community by eliminating the so-called undesirable citizens of the country, the drug personalities.
Is extrajudicial killing part of the change? Is it not that killing is bad? Can the support of the people to the Philippine government in seeking change by way of extrajudicially killing the undesirables contradict to morality and change?
If killing which is not morally right be justified to effect change, it seems like the people are contradicting themselves. If the people contradict themselves, something must be wrong with them.
This ambivalence on the part of the people looks normal anyway since it is now prevalent nowadays. Sad to say, the prevalence of morally wrong decisions looks and sounds good when the majority approves it.
When the majority of the people approve a morally flawed policy or policies by the authorities, such flawed programs of the state look legal and moral when the same is actually the other way around.
When the people who are supporting an abusive regime are the majority of the populace, an illegal act or acts by the authorities to effect change can be legal, moral, ethical and proper because the majority is always right in this modern Philippine society.
When the people like to have change in just one click of their fingertips to happen, morally wrong decisions by the state like extrajudicial killings may take place, and human rights abuses against the so-called undesirables may be committed by the government agents, anyway the public would simply approve it the name of ABRUPT or AUTOMATIC CHANGE.
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