Dynasty Deteriorates Society Fr.

Bernas, by the way, is one of the country's

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! The
friend of a friend has a business he inherited
from his father who inherited it from the
latter's father who inherited the same business
from the friend's great grandfather.
Now, I have a question for you: are
government officials supposed to treat their
position as a business like that of my friend's
friend's? Can a politician just hand his position
down to the next of his generation?
Obviously, your answer to the first question
is \"no\". Government officials are in position to
serve and only to serve. They are not to earn
from whatever transactions they facilitate.
They are not to get rich because, as we said,
government position is not a business. This is
the theory.
As to the second question, the answer is still
the same \"no\". A politician can not hand his
position down to the next of his generation. It
is the voter that dictates whether the next of
the politician's generation will have the job or
not.
That the candidate wins however is another
story. Of course, his winning will constitute
what is call \"politycal dynasty\". (Dynasty, by
the way means, a line of rulers of the same
family. So the word \"political\" in the
phrase \"political dynasty\" is actually a
superfluity. That is according to the New
Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus). But
what about dynasty according to the law?
Sad to say, the law does not have a definition.
In fact, there is even no law about dynasty.
What is written in the constitution actually is
an order for Congress to enact a law that
defines and prohibits dynasty.
most respected constitutionalists.
The situation is actually on of betrayal. We
elect people to represent us. Obviously,
however, when they are elected, they begin to
represent themselves and their interest. Our
status as their master is demoted to a mere
fan to be smiled at and to be thrilled by
promises.
Then a son or daughter come up and
say, \"father, I would like to be a
mayor/congressman/senator like you.\"
\"Ok, anak,\" father
mayor/congressman/senator replies. \"I'll take
care of it. In the mean time, go and announce
to this and that barangay that we are
constructing waiting shed and basketball
courts; and do not allow them to forget about
me, about us. Never forget to pain on those
structures in bold and large letters they were
constructed out of love by your father to his
constituents. That way, when it is your time to
replace me, they will have an easy time
remembering your name, our name.\"
Talk about undue advantage. Talk about
the \"narrowing of opportunities of competent,
young, promising, poor candidates to occupy
important positions in government\". They
who have everything but the means to make
this country great.
Talk about betrayal.
So, please, when I am back here again on
stage, I hope I would not be asked again about
my stand on the menace to our society called
dynasty.
I am not and I will not be in favor of it.

P-Noy SONA::::
Of course, I am not in favor of dynasty. To
rephrase the Constitutional Commissioner who
explained the rationale for the existence of the - Pagbabayaran ang kinabukasan ang kasakiman ng
provision against dynasty in the Constitution, nakaraan….
dynasty narrows the opportunities of
competent, young and promising poor
candidates to occupy important positions in
the government.

Without the law that prohibits dynasty, there

will be no end to the rule of people form the
same families who have most of the money but
do not necessarily have what it takes to make
this country great.

But since Congress in the home of dynasties,

to borrow Fr. Joaquin Bernas' words, the
realization that the provision on dynasties
would widen access to political opportunities,
will probably be exhaustingly long in coming.

1)Introduction about the topic :
What is mercy killing?Mercy killing or
Euthanasia is nothing but the
practice of killing a person or animal,in a
painless or minimally painful way,
for merciful reasons,usually to end suffering of
a patient before death.In wider
sense it depicts assisting sufferers to commit
sudden death rather than suffering
from long,in particular physician-assisted
suicide.
In some cases,Mercy killing has been legalized
in Netherlands,Belgium,
but in no other countries.There are many other
reasons that why mercy killing
is not the best resort and also why it is
beneficial in some cases.This decision
is based on the patients' rights and
dignity,doctors' rights,religious beliefs,society's
views,
morality and other resolutions available.
Now requesting all of you to give
positive/negative opinion regarding mercy
killing.
2)Opinions against of mercy killing :
i) Scoetiy's view:Active euthanasia is akin to
murder
The term which is basically synonymous with
the phrase "mercy killing" that is
Euthanasia.The term Euthanasia is a greek
term,which means "good death".
But many people aren't finding anything good
about Euthonesia except its name
meaning "good death".As commonly defined
and used, euthanasia involves that
actions of one party to hasten the death of
another,so many people of today's world
are not cosidering mercy killing as merciful,in
their view mercy killing is also a kind
of killing or murder process.
ii) Society's view:Family persons may misuse
this:
They are also right that "mercy killing" might
be abused
by some families.To get property they may ask
doctor to kill the eldest family person
by this method.And as corruption is
everywhere,so this may happen true.In such
case
only the patient will be victim.
3)Morality:
Not all killing is murder in a strict legal sense,
but euthanasia defintiely comes quite close as
there is premeditation, intent, and action.The
only place I can justify the taking of a human
life is the case of capital punishment for
murder.I know of no cases where the victim of
euthanasia was a convicted murderer.Most
often it is a person terminally ill or in great pain
or suffering some other seriously debilitating
and irreversible condition which makes death
look preferrable. The problem is that we live in
community, and are inherently relational
beings.Our life is a gift given from a source
quite apart from us.Life is a trust.Suicide,
'assisted suicide,' euthanasia, and homicide all
have in common an action taken to end a
human life.Motives and methods do not change
the outcome.That we do it because we
care;that we do it 'gently' does not alter the
fact that a life ends unnaturally.
So on the point of morality,major part of
common people are thinking that everyone's
life has quality,no matter what their social
status is.Life is a gift from God and only God
can take it from us.If you allow exceptions to
the principle that human life is scared, you
weaken the principle itself.Only a minor part of
population is able to expend any amount they
can to stave off death,even when there is no
hope for recovery.But major part of peopple
are not able to maintain treatment with huge
cost.There are those - and their number is
growing - who opt to receive neither treatment
nor hastening death.They choose to allow
nature to take its own course.They are just
given medication only to ease their visible
suffering, but that's not enough to prevent
respiratory failure.They have chosen wisdom
over knowledge.Theirs is truly death with
dignity.Coz they enjoy each and every moment euthonasia is applied,it is for good purpose
of life till his/her last breath. only but not for harm.

4)In favour of the topic:

It is an important question in today's society

that whether mercy killing is really merciful or
not.I think mercy killing is an exceptional type
of killing method.

E.g.,Maja, a married lady said in an article

published on 23rd may,2005 that she forced
her husband to kill a
hummingbird.Because,their neighborhood cat
had it and made half-killed, but just kept
playing with it while it was horribly
suffering.And it became extremely
painful/severe condition for the half-dead
bird.So Maja requested her husband to kill the
bird with knife and he did.---So this can be said
as mercy killing and it is not wrong.Her
husband killed the bird to give it relieve from
severe pain.
But u all may say that the humming bird is an
animal and we are human being.So,both can't
get treated in same manner.

So,i m giving another example is,if a cancer

patient is suffering fromintolerable pain few
hours before his/her definite death and doctor
is also declaring that he will survive maximum
few hours more----he will just suffer now with
this pain and gradually he'll die with hours.In
case of such patient,it is really tough for the
patient to count his time with such king of
severe pain.And it is really meaningless to
suffer with this kind of intolerable pain
specially when death after few hours is
definite.Only In such a condition---there is no
question of enjoying or feeling last breath.In
such case,living few more hours becomes
highly painful to the patient.So,only in such
case mercy killing should be applicable to give
him peace for ever,to give him relief from such
a painful death.Offcourse human being loves
life,offcourse human being feels and enjoys
each and every moment of life.But life is not as
it is to everyone.Only the sufferer know that
how much horrible it is to hear that he/she will
live for few hours more and until then he/she
has to tolerate an intolerable physical pain coz
he/she is cancer patient.So,in such a case if
 Take it to the limit
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!

Push it baby just the way I like

(You know I want it)
Pick me up and take me for a ride
(You know I want it)
Sexy body don't you wanna turn me
out
(You know I want it)
When I hop into it
Take me to the crowd
Push Push –Kat Deluna
Oh-oh-oh-ohh!
Oh-oh-oh-oh!
Oh-oh-oh-oh! Sweet boy, I just wanna be your
fantasy boy
Kat DeLuna If you want it boy you gotta
And Akon Push, push, push baby
Yeah-oh! Don't stop for a minute
Konvict Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!
I said push, push baby
I see you dancing with every girl Take it to the limit
(Eh!) Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!
Looking for someone to rock your
world Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
(Yeah!) Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
I'm checking your body Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
It's looking right Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!
(Eh!)
Boy I can tell that you go all night It's like I won this lottery
(Yeah!) Which I about to go get my claim on
Damn you look like the perfect picture
Sweet boy, I just wanna be your About to go get my frame on
fantasy boy Looking like the type I've been
If you want it boy you gotta searching
Push, push, push baby To put my last name on
Don't stop for a minute Come on closer with your umbrella
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh! 'Cause you're about to get rained on
I said push, push baby Clap it up baby keep on clapping
Back it up by the way you're stacking
Kat DeLuna's now the captain
Akon wanna know what's cracking
Push, push, push baby
Don't stop for a minute
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!
I said push, push baby
Take it to the limit
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!
Push, push, push baby
Don't stop for a minute
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh!
I said push, push baby
Take it to the limit Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-
oh-oh, oh-oh-oh! (come on) oh….
Impossible - Shontelle
I remember years ago
Someone told me I should take
Caution when it comes to love
I did, I did
And you were strong and I was not
My illusion, my mistake
I was careless, I forgot
I did
And now when all is done
There is nothing to say
You have gone and so effortlessly
You have won
You can go ahead tell them
Tell them all I know now
Shout it from the roof tops
Write it on the sky line
All we had is gone now
Tell them I was happy
And my heart is broken
All my scars are open
Tell them what I hoped would be
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Falling out of love is hard
Falling for betrayal is worst
Broken trust and broken hearts
I know, I know
Thinking all you need is there
Building faith on love and words
Empty promises will wear
I know, I know
And now when all is gone
There is nothing to say
And if you're done with embarrassing
me
On your own you can go ahead tell
them
Tell them all I know now
Shout it from the roof tops
Write it on the sky line
All we had is gone now
Tell them I was happy
And my heart is broken
All my scars are open
Tell them what I hoped would be
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible!
Ooh impossible (yeah yeah)
I remember years ago
Someone told me I should take
Caution when it comes to love
I did
Tell them all I know now
Shout it from the roof tops
Write it on the sky line
All we had is gone now
Tell them I was happy
And my heart is broken
All my scars are open
Tell them what I hoped would be
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible
Impossible, impossible

I remember years ago

Someone told me I should take
Caution when it comes to love
I did…