The City Never Sleeps

     July 23, 2018, Mr. Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivered his State of the Nation Address. The President's SONA this year was not as long as his previous ones but he was able to point out unfixed issues and campaigns he desires to implement.

     

     I don't hold any grudge against the President but to convey complaint on a particular statement from his SONA is not a sin, is it?  "Your concern is human rights, mine is human lives" is unpleasing to the ears. Mr. Duterte is framing our mutual concerns that it seemed to contradict. You can't totally support human lives without supporting human rights. Human rights is the right to life and the right to live. Its point is to protect lives. From the idea I deducted from his statement, it's as if our concerns are different from each other. He claims to be concerned on human lives when in fact, he is the root of death abundance in the the country he leads. Human lives supporter (as he wants to consider himself) is the one who is ending lives of his people. How ironic.  

True that it's unreasonable for victims and some people who seek for justice to spare the lives of those who committed inhumane acts but we can never correct a mistake with another mistake.