ONCE in a while I encounter in social media essays that I think should be read by as many Filipinos as possible, not just for their piercing analysis, but in this case, authenticity and passion. This is in sharp contrast to the blah-blahs of former or current communist cadres whose party since the 1970s has used 'human rights' as a propaganda weapon (especially to free their arrested leaders) and politicos in Congress crying crocodile tears (pun intended) over the alleged victims of President Duterte's war on drugs.

Our views are formed by our concrete existence, and not by rarefied concepts of values. Critics of Duterte's antidrug war do not understand that in Homo sapiens' 300,000 years of existence, the welfare of the community is higher than a criminal's individual rights, and ensuring that will have its costs.