Essay On Extrajudicial Killings

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The Effects of Ongoing Extrajudicial Killings Related to the Drug War on the Values, Beliefs, and Advocacies of the Affected Citizens In the Philippines, a culture of violence and widespread panic reigns due to extrajudicial killings in the name of the drug war (Chapman and Babor 492). The Philippines is one out of many countries, such as Mexico, whose citizens experience the culture of violence due to the drug war. The drug war is a phenomenon that occurs on a global scale, and it is exhibited differently in local settings (Zigon 502). Being a global phenomenon, it manifests several factors that can be compared from one local setting to another. That is, although the extrajudicial killings in the drug war have detrimental effects on relationships between citizens, their values and beliefs, and their psychological well-being, these can be developed into powerful relationships between citizens, strong values and beliefs, and emotional control. First of all, the presence of extrajudicial killings in on-going drug wars result in damaging effects in relationships between citizens affected by the drug war, their values and beliefs, and their psychological well-being. In fact, citizens who are affected by the drug …show more content…

People have used platforms such as Twitter in order to express their emotions, albeit positive or negative, on current social issues such as the drug war in Mexico (De Choudhury et al. 3570). Thereafter, the same study arrived at a conclusion that citizens who tweet about the drug war showed decreasing negative thoughts and emotions. Instead, they have shown increasing self-awareness and emotional control (De Choudhury et al. 3571). Although the psychological well-being of the citizens were earlier damaged, it was later controlled and strengthened through the communication of the citizens’ emotions, and that the citizens can be heard by

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