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RE: Education Over Force: Dealing With Criminality
Well I hope that this ongoing war against drugs in the Philippines will work. Looking at the number of heinous crimes from people on drugs, education is important to the people esp the youth, but its so rampant now that it involves not only the people in the streets but also government offiacials for the allure of money it brings. Maybe in the future i can symphatise with those drug-users, even to those druglords and drugprotectors. At the moment, theres no resouces to rehabilitate the users nor prisons for pushers.
what is happening there really is a disgrace to due process/human rights... if someone on drugs commits a crime that involves the property of another (theft etc) then this isn't a "victimless" crime any longer.. but criminalizing those "bad" drugs whilst turning around and prompting/fishing out other "legal" pharmaceutical drugs to the public is pretty hypocritical to say the least.. the government just doesn't want/like competition.
it is easy to want to use force with people who suffer from an addiction... it requires a lot more effort to use peaceful and creative means to deal with the problem. Well, force hasn't been working for the last several decades, it surely isn't going to start working any time soon.. :/
If you can see whats really happening, am not sure if you,ll say the same thing. Fathers raping their kids, including babies, elderly women being raped, a grandson butchering his grandfather..these people are on drugs and more. Families are being victimised by their own. what can stop these?