The Philippines bleeds mostly from self-inflicted wounds.
There’s a frightening emptiness at the core of anyone who believes na maaaring mag-exist ang hustisya without due process. It’s the emptiness of a mind that surrendered its moral faculties long ago. Ang EJK ay hindi solusyon. Ito ay isang pagkukumpisal that a certain nation ran out of imagination.
People cling to these ideas because they were never taught to distinguish power from legitimacy, or coercion from justice. As long as nananatiling hollow ang civic education, the electorate will continue reproducing the same deficiencies that keep the Philippines trapped in pre-modern thinking.
This is why, generation after generation, we still end up with citizens who cannot evaluate information or engage in critical thought. Tulad ng mga DDS who can’t resist propaganda.
These “bobotantes” don’t exist by nature. Ni-normalize ng estado ang conditions that manufacture them.
And the worst part? There are those who will lie to themselves with religious devotion just to justify the blood on their hands. Nananatili tayo sa ilalim ng korapsyon at kahirapan because we have citizens who think killing is a form of governance.
Due process and institutions like the ICC exist because civilization cannot function on instinct and impulse alone. Rejecting them is a self-inflicted detour back to the pre-civilized mind.