"Duterte said: you can kill legally because they might fight back. They will fight back. And that was the loop of the narrative. They are drug addicts; therefore, they are armed. Because they are drug addicts, they will fight back. And, if they fight back, they must die."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-journalist-exposes-the-philippines-extralegal-killings
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