PATRICK ADRIEL H. AURE
Isn’t it bizarre? We, Filipinos, are united in the thought that illegal drugs, addiction and the crimes they lead to are cancerous to society, but we are divided by our preferred methods in solving the problem. What makes our predicament more complicated is how highly politicized and polarizing the issue has become. President Duterte’s bloody ‘war on drugs’ figuratively mirrors a war between his most loyal fanatics and his staunchest critics. Expletives are fired in the digital world in the same way that bullets are fired in the real world. In my opinion, the aftermath of these wars will lead to all of us, Filipinos, losing, regardless of our political inclination, and the drug problem prevailing.