Pragmatism never trumps integrity, honest rule of law and morality

OUR leaders—in government and politics, human development, business and commerce, and veritably every department of life (except religion)—have by and large become as sick as the leaders of Western society. They are leading the Filipino people to become obsessively pragmatic and utilitarian beings creating and merrily enjoying life unrestrained by moral strictures.

That is why we, too, despite the majority of our population being supposed-to-be Roman Catholic Christians, and despite the Catholic Church’s bishops addressing warnings in statements and pastoral letters against immorality and corruption are immersed in “the culture of death.”