FreeThink: Reflections, Criticisms and Emotion

Photocredit to the owner Peace can exist without violence. The presence of violence is not a manifestation of the absence of peace. Peace will always be present, its just being compromised. Violence is sometimes needed for a stable and improving social order. It promotes stability and equity. It helps the oppressed and it educates the oppressor. It breaks barrier and leads away to a better society. Sometimes we need to fight for what is right. Cowering from evil is a form of confirmation. We need to face our social issues head on. We can never attain peace by just standing. As long as there are social inequalities as long as there are oppressor and oppressed, as long as there are criminals as long as there are those who try to destroy the sanity of human civilization. There will never be peace. Yes living to see a world without violence is possible. But could it qualify a world of peace? I believe that True peace is already inside us. We are fighting wars because we are trying ...

Jerone Avel S. Cansino MAED Social Science Student                                                    Introduction I found those two signages above on google the last one printed on marker is something that I have downloaded from facebook. While the reason of it being uploaded on the world wide web is purely for entertainment purposes, in my opinion it is worth looking at with criticism. Philippines is a country which is composed of a poor majority (lower middle class and the poor) . The problem of debt is like a mouse-maze once trapped into, got into it, going out is somewhat difficult. “69% of Filipinos have no bank accounts” (Taruc, 2015) . In his article published in www.cnnphilippines.com Taruc wote a commentary o...