Human dignity and the right of self-defense

– the Donald Trump of the Philippines.” So we read and hear many times during the last months programs all over the world. It is obvious that there are similarities: • Their populist appeal among the frustrated, disadvantaged, angry parts of the population, who provide public support and help them gain political power;

• The contempt for the political and social establishment of the country;

• The use of offensive language in public political discourse;

• The over-sensitivity and overreaction to any type of criticism.

But there is a fundamental difference between the two men: Donald Trump only prohibition of the labor law that allowed preparation of constitutional reforms in the direction of a federal-parliamentary state structure, the cleaning up of the public administration bureaucracy, getting rid not only of the ones connected to the drug rings but also to illegal gambling and corruption.

However, for me and my fellow Centrist Democrats – Christians and Muslims – in the Philippines there are two important issues

The Christian understanding of human beings as children of God has been the origin of the concept of human dignity and accordingly democratic state structures built on the rule of law. The communist ideology, which claims to promote human values, is fundamentally different: the core value for the communist is not the dignity of each human being but the liberation of mankind.

Does President Duterte understand that his war for a drug-free society is endangering the protection of human dignity of each and