Duterte, we, are better than this

I mean, President Duterte, who is emerging as our first anti-oligarch President ever, is better than being a leader presiding over the massacre of small-time drug pushers and addicts, intended to end the illegal drug menace his predecessor BS Aquino had allowed to flourish.

We Filipinos, who have a deep respect for human life, either because of Christianity or of Western humanism, are better than a people cheering the wanton murder of the underclass, most of whom were really driven by their misery to take drugs, and then sell them to others so they could afford their addiction. They certainly didn’t go into drugs to become rich but in order to numb themselves to the hellish life they were living.