AUTOCRATIC HONOR

AUTOCRATIC HONOR

A Philippine Military Academy student, supposed to graduate salutatorian is now being threatened with non-completion of the many years of studies he has done over one instance: he did not admit or he was not honest about the true reason why he was late in entering a class.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????????????????????????????????????????

If our soldiers think this way, we can really be sure that we will not be able to expect any real honest-to-goodness protection from the military. Honor is viewed in the narrowest, autocratic sense.

Why so?

How many years does a student study? And if that PMA student was really diligent, he had spent not the regular number of hours a student pours in his studies, but more. More than what a non-honor student did.
Yet, the honor committee, supposed to have rendered judgment on that one instant wants him to be expelled from the list of graduating students.

What kind of mindset are we building of our soldiers, mechanical? robotic? unfeeling? non-sensitive?

This is the reason why I believe that all kinds of arm-wielding institutions should be requestioned as to their basis for existence. Holding arms, knowing that one has the protection of a gun, an armalite, a bullet, he or she will have the tendency to abuse power.


In the academe, we are supposed to build, TO BREED, TO REAR
humane beings, not puppets. I hope that the authorities would be able to read this.