Message from @The Big Oof
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Basic human empathy shouldn't need to be explained
Duterte is a criminal himself, ironically
You have to have an extremely high IQ to understand human empathy
Define criminal
So...
He straight up extra-judicially kills people, such as drug dealers
How do you enforce the law without punishments?
Not to mention the countless comments he's made encouraging war crimes
And rape...
I don't know enough about Duterte, I know he kills drug dealers and that he's an atheist (it was in the news recently)
but that's it
Drug dealing shouldn't be a capital offense...
No?
You don’t have to be racist
You can certainly make the case it should be
Just be duterte
If you cripple an entire section of a city with drugs, that would be forgivable?
But yeah, Duterte encouraged some soldiers under his command to commit war crimes
To be brutal, rather than to show empathy
Empathy towards your enemies will get you killed.
@SilverLining Could it not be considered an act of selflessness if you take away one person's life to save the lives of others?
Should an individual pay with their life for a non-lethal crime? No.
Also, do keep in mind
this is *extra-judicially*
Drugs can be lethal....
As in, they're not going through the court system
Heroin is deadly
for example
Drugs are worse than lethal in many cases.
Yes, in higher doses. It's not directly damaging
Many drugs are, though not all
They are capable of debilitating many.
You should get killed for dealing drugs like heroin, but if you're addicted, you should get help
If you're just selling weed, then no, you shouldn't get killed
And said drug dealers aren't forcing others to do drugs... Besides, iirc, he's punishing the users as well
He's killing people selling weed... And again, this is all *outside of the legal system* which is a pretty damn bad thing
I'm not defending duterte, I just said I know little about him other than that he kills drugs people and hates God or something
his own words
I've read up on him a fair bit...
I get that you're not defending him, but things are a lot worse than they might seem on the surface
Maybe people should... Stop?
I think if they know what will happen, and are willing to risk their life on it, then it's perfectly fine.