Reaction about Mercy Killing in the Philippines if ever?
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I don't approve in Mercy Killing wherever it may occur. As long as you can, support him/her and never decide his/her death. There is no such thing as mercy in killing, no matter how you see her/him in pain, it is not our decision to take his/her life away, but God's.
230131
How about the fact that the Philippines is a democracy? How about the fact that the Philippine people are free? Communist countries like China implement policies on how many children you can have. It is none of the government's business.\n\nClear enough for ya?
541809
I believe the essence of the question is diffult to answer. I have not had one of my siblings speak to me for about five years. They decided if one of our parents was near death, nothing can be done to save them. Due to my religious convictions, I did not agree and our father is still living. But since I have been living in China, my mother died. I have said I will investigate her death, to see if my mother's wishes were honored.\n\nThe death penalty is a violation of human rights, regardless of whether the death row inmate violated someone else's human rights by killing them. We do not have the right to play God. I resent a judge to decide death for anyone. I also resent the fact that I have been shunned from being on a murder case, because of my views on the death penalty. That is a violation of my right of expression.\n\nNo judge has any right to tell anyone they will die for their crimes. The case I should have been on, the man was found innocent after eight years. This was because picking out the jury was a tainted system, violating the rights of a poor man with no education. In effect, he was sentenced because he was poor and uneducated.\n\nI read where some of the answers were against the Islam people for cutting off the hand of a hungry boy for stealing food. He was also treated with injustice. The boy has a destroyed life just for being poor and hungry, the same problem the innocent man faced.\n\nIf a jury decides a man should die, the prosecutor, judge, and jury have killed the man. They are no better off that the man charged. But remember, the man was innocent.\n\nGod is a jealous God; he does not want us to worship any idols; he also does not like us to be God by killing a person charged with killing.
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I'll try to be responsive, rather than attack or defend any particular leader.\n\nOften, elected officials will feel obligated to remain in office through good times and through bad times.  Whether the majority of people in a country still "like" the leader is just considered one of the trials of office, since ups or downs happen.  I've linked an article of Arroyo's recent diplomacy talks, which suggest that Arroyo is still respected in the international community.  When she was criticized internationally for declaring a state of emergency, she lifted that proclamation.  She has responded to both national and international pressure, in some circumstances.\n\nResignation is usually reserved for only extreme instances of misconduct or criminal investigation.  Simply having people dislike the leader is considered common.  The Filipino community will have a chance to vote later and make a choice for a new leader.
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I'd address three topics:\n\n1.Is it justified (eg. eye for an eye, revenge Vs rehabilitation, rights of the victim and their family, risk of miscarriage etc)\n2.Is it effective (eg. is it a deterent, does it make better societies, is it cheaper than permanent incarceration etc)\n3.Is it legal (eg. is it a cruel and unusual punishment, the position of international law, etc)\n\nYou've probably been asked the US/UK part because we are fairly similar societies with a largely common ancestry\nand tradition, but the UK abolished the death penalty whilst much of the US still uses it.  You can go two ways on this - \n1. the US is a much younger society still in a vigourous development phase facing the challenges of it's huge size and diversity so frontier justice is still appropriate (similar claims for China by the way, the other big executor).  when the UK was trying to hold a huge empire together it executed loads of people too.\n2. the existence in the US of a more fundemental christianity gives people a different perspective on life (and death) from the broadly humanist (post christian) views in Europe (including the UK) where morality is more personal and less something learned from religion.  Religious Europe was a very bloody place indeed for hundreds of years.\n\nHope this helps, BTW my opinion is that it is as morally justifiable as war.  I really don't want to have to do it, but sometimes I might have to protect my family and society.  Right now I think both our societies could live without capital punishment, and therefore should - but that could change.
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I agree with Wendy.  I'll be thinking about this and I'll post later if I think of anything new, but at the very least, it would be fornication, which is condemned.\n\nCatholic priests have no business touching children.  Period.  God does not condone it.  In fact, they will be held to stricter judgment for being a stumbling block to their victims and all those who turned away from God because of their ungodly influence.\n\nI appreciate your concern for children.  I know God hates it.  I'll keep thinking.\n\n(As for cutting off one's hand or foot or putting out one's eye - that's how serious it is.)
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Correction, more than a hundred countries still have death penalties, some still using firing squads, public hangings, stoning and three still chop off the victim's heads.\nFor Christians the problem is one of bending "Thou shall not kill."  For others it may or may not be a moral issue.\nPersonally, I do not see any moral action in killing a human to punish him or her for killing another.
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/Asia/acc/acc_aug2003/Philippines.pdf\n\n:>peace
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hello!\ni believe that the government has something to do with it. the way they treat the filipinos, taken thier freedom and abusing the power their holding. our country has so much to offer it is the government and the people like doxchopshop didn't know what a beautiful country we have. Godbless! =)
202814
I can't find the article online, but the article was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on December 12, 2004.
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Try to watch here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=special+education+philippines&go=Go
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I think the i.d system would work for Filipinos because of the terrorist organisations over there that seem to be just a face in the crowd. the N.P.A or New Peoples Army hide themselves as upstanding citizens but now and then blow up the odd bus or ship. You also have Moro Islamic Liberation Front that are in peace talks and the Abu Sayaff Islamists which are not. The only thing is that if you get asked for your i.d card in Filippines, you cant say sorry i left it at home as you are likely to get beaten and thrown in a filthy prison for months before they get around to confirming your i.d. Oh i forgot also that your cute
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ewww ewww ewww ewww... \n\ni hate them both.. and i don't mind if they'd go out.. and hopefully.. rot in hell together!!!...\n\nsorry if i offended anyone..\n\ni just can't stand the site of seeing sam milby.. and since toni is related to him.. i'm starting to hate her.. [not that i liked her in the first place.. with toni.. it's like an i-don't-like-her-to-even-bother state.. but now that she's always connected to this fuhreakish ugly looking guy who says he can't speak tagalog [well!!.. news flash!.. his accent is sooo fake!] toni is starting to get in my nerves.. let me correct that.. she just got to my nerves!!!\n\newww... ewww..
1022532
The above translation is no where near the actual one.\n\nAs a Filipino, I wish I could translate the question, but I can't. I'll think about it.
960684
Not at all.  There was a recent case of this in Africa, with her sentence (being buried to the neck and stoned) being "reconsidered" because of the international reaction.  Other behaviors have been protested, too.  The South American custom of a man murdering his divorced wife if she starts to date again, and calling it a matter of "honor".  Indian women being burned in a "cooking accident" because the dowry didn't come through.  Why should Muslims be given a pass?  They just convicted a man in Georgia for cutting his daughter's clitoris off with a pair of scissors in order to be sure she remained "good".  He may protest his sentence, but she'll suffer longer than he will.  This isn't ethnocentricity.  It's an ability to empathize with a person who suffers.  Those without the ability to empathize aren't faithful to any religion; they're merely psychopaths.
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All these negative responses...its sad. \nYes, I do believe God was watching over those children. Its nice to hear good news with all the bad news that is circulating in today's society. Thank you. :)
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Yup, you got it, homey! \n\nAnd those same conquistadores and their ilk circumnavigated the globe and hit the Philippines, too! Same-o, same-o. \n\nThus, in the process, the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade began as they sacked, raped and pillaged all the natural resources of these countries FIVE CENTURIES AGO[!] and they brought back the treasures to Europe and Rome.\n\nBut, as an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how some of their 'faithful' UP TO NOW continue to be IN DENIAL and keep on protecting all the atrocities perpetrated by the Mother Church since the start of the Crusades. They don't realize that the Church's own HISTORY has nothing to do with FAITH at all!\n\nYet somehow they prefer to remain in darkness... until they open their eyes and begin to see.\n\nPeace be with you!