No, it's still insane.

The most dangerous person in the room is the one with nothing to lose.

this is not remotely like voting for Trump. and it doesn't "so happen" that life is easier in countries with functioning (if deeply flawed) justice systems than it is in ones where corruption and vigilantism rule; there are pretty good reasons for why that is.

It's insane. The country will descend into chaos because the rule of law will be replaced with the rule of the gun, and the gangsters are better at that game.

Also the president is probably headed for the Hague.

> Police are too weak and too corrupt to deal with it

Yes, so let's go kill a bunch of people, instead of reforming the police force.

Killing suspects on sight does offend my first world sensibilities as it offends anybody with a spark of reason and anybody who gasp the concept of moral.

A state that does kill random citizens has no legitimacy. states are formed by individuals in order to ensure they are not subject to random violence or violation of their rights. If a state can't or does not want to guarantee that nobody has any reason to respect the state. If police men kill random people because they think they deal drugs, the ordinary citizen has every right to kill police men because they think the police thinks they deal drugs. (or their fellow country men) In such a state of affairs, what's the purpose of a state? What's it's legitimacy? It doesn't have any. A complete lack of any institutions and anarchy would protect everybodys rights better.

I think I understand why people agree with this course of action. I get why at some point you'd be for a proper cleanup of the place you live in.

The main problem I see with it though is that soon someone will say you are a drug dealer. Or that weird people are coming to your house. Or that at some point the actual evil people will arrange drug deals near people they want to get rid of. And then you'll really want a fair process. If you start a red scare equivalent, then suddenly every neighbour may be a communist.

> To play devil's advocate: Drugs and the criminal networks supported by drugs are a massive problem in the Philippines. Police are too weak and too corrupt to deal with it, but this is a solution that works, even if it does offend our first world sensibilities.

To play devil's advocate: Jews and other degenerates are a massive problem in Germany. Police are too weak and too corrupt to deal with it, but this is a solution that works, even if it does offend our first world sensibilities.

Everything else aside, how would that method even work to combat criminal networks? Wouldn't the criminal networks simply use this law to legalize their own murders by labeling everyone they murdered "drug user"?

Sounds like Mexico then. https://vimeo.com/18768132

That data is crowdsourced and methodologically questionable. Davao actually has a high murder and rape rate.[1]

[1] http://m.gulfnews.com/news/asia/philippines/one-crime-every-...

Yea, my mother i law also says that Barcelona, Spain was really safe at night during the dictatorship, with military police on every corner. That does not make it right, or even a good thing. Safety for the sake of safety is not a solution.