Thank you for pointing out the aspects not well looked at regarding this situation.
* 900k addicts turning themselves in - never actually seen before in any country.
Who should be blamed for that? Should people be blamed for 900k existing addicts prefering to surrender and reveal their drug dealers and the corrupt officers and judges and lawyers who surround, and mostly profiteer from their drug use? Who should be blamed for the 4 million addicts? With 900k turning themselves
in less than 6 months, that shows there was a real number of drug addicts, who need real help.
Are you blaming blaming Their President Roberto Duerte for not building rehab centers and letting these
people into prisons ? Were the former President unaware of the drug problems, but happily using drug money for their campains to blame? Or is it Duerte aware of the drug problem, but not using drug money to blame?
Though the prisons there are awful conditions, why do these drug addicts who surrender and confess to the Police, still prefer to stay in jail as long as they feel they can't handle themselves in regards to drugs?
* You point out the US who did the same: did they really?
From my understanding, in the Philipines, they are also going after the drug Lords, including the richest one involved in drugs, the politicians involved in drugs, the top military and police officers involved in drugs, the lawyers involved in drugs, the judges involved in drugs. They are sparing nobody.
Apparently, US drug on war did not concern politicians involved in drugs, police officers in volved in drugs, judges involved in drugs
In European countries, politicians involved in drugs are not unknown. But in the USA, at least
you have courageous people putting it like it is:
( one question: would they bail out their once drug supplier if asked to? in other terms
are they opened to corruption ?)
Thailand would have been a similar case to compare to : they went on killing people at the street levels,
but here again, they did not touch the corruption that allows the drug activities to continue, nor obviously the
"elite" level involved in drugs.
* You are suggesting that people from the Philipines who deal drug do not have a choice.
Now, that 900K are turning themselves to the police there, how comes there are not more women and kids getting involved in drugs or drug related activities ?
I believe we have been fed a LOT of lies regarding drugs.
- One lie is a drug addict can not manage himself/herself without rehab.
The Philipines are demonstrating that drug addicts can stay off drugs if they so want,
but they need to want it hard enough. The motivation is THE factor. A drug addict does not
want to take drugs, and really really really want off it, he/she will. It is not a question
of rehab centers. I am not saying to close rehabd centers. I'd say open even more of them
to make it easier for those who wish to get off drugs, and also increase the numbers of
bouddhist method meditation retreats, that have showed effectiveness.
- Another lie is drug dealers are the bad guys : false. The corrupt police officers, the corrupt jdges, the corrupt military, the corrupt politicians are as well. Without their involvement in protecting and promoting it , drug activities won't take place.
* Now that the catholic Church being responsible for single mothers, or the fathers who walk out being responsible for single mothers is very questionable.
You can ask these single mothers, and those whose partners walk out, few questions:
- did you had any acts of "impudicity" ( large term used to cover everything in front, behind, via mouth, via touch) with the person you married before getting married ?
- did you have the 2-3 years "cooling" period ( the real Catho make exceptions for older couples), aka engagement and marriage training ( actually serious reflection period), before getting married ? Some priests even advise couples to not meet for at least one year, and fast track those separated for many years. Do they get it right, when no impudicity is involved, in not fast tracking those who never separated before marriage, and not delaying those who separated but want to join ?
- was there anybody in this world, who was not present during this marriage, but whose presence would have make the engaged people think hard before saying 'yes' ? ( that can be a former lover or love interest who go sidelined, etc)
Real catholic is a very serious matter : this is why the real one stay married with no coercion, threats, blame, menaces and psychological abuses and pressures to do so. They are actually VERY happy in it, and would not want it another way, nor with any another person.
They atually paid the price BEFOREHAND for a very healthy marriage. The other pay it after the wedding, with the normal consequences ( guy running away, etc).
Being a real catholic is a very difficult thing to do ( "no impudicity" means something) , and many so-called 'catholic' in practice are not. They don't understand the spiritual laws that are at stake. Not just psychological, nor mindset laws.
