Many of us have resigned to our fate of having Duterte as president until June 30, 2022. We will survive, we tell ourselves.
But not many of our children.
The House of Representatives passed on second reading last week a bill that wants the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in the Philippines from the current 15 to 12 years old.
They changed the word “criminal” to “social”, like coating poison with sugar.