- As always, ganda ng confidence.

- Good points raised as well. Pero need talaga ng pagpapalalim sa arguments. Answer the why,
how, so what of your arguments.

- What I understood from your arguments is, irrelevant yung gov kasi kapag dolo na yung crime,
may intention na talaga yan. However, ate @Sheryl raised the POI na diminished intention lang
sinasabi nila. I think hindi ito nasagot,

- Good extension by saying na dapat i-alleviate na lang yung situation ng poor. Good example
din, pero kulang pa rin more time to explain hehe

Socio-economic status is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's

work experience and of an individual's or family's economic access to resources and social
position in relation to others. This being said, it will cause a serious disadvantage to the country
if socio-economic status will be used as a mitigating circumstance.

One cannot use socio-economic status as a mitigating circumstance because first and foremost,
in the example explained by the leader of the government, the offender has performed the crime
with deliberate intent. If this becomes a policy, this will be used as a defense by most people
who commit a crime, even if they commit the crime with dolo and culpa, which is deliberate
intent, deceit, and malice. This will be used as a license by offenders in order to commit a crime.
Like what the first speaker of the government has said, there is no intent. How can there be no
intent if a person has acted with intelligence? There is intention, whether or not he just stole or
took one’s property or money, and what is this intention? It is to be able to support one’s family.
This type of policy cannot be considered as a parens patriae, as one’s action which violates the
RPC should not be tolerated and must be punished. Even if there is a limitation, the mitigating
circumstance of socio-economic status will be used to commit an offense. This will cause
people, even with the limitations provided, to use this as a reason to commit a crime. There will
be chaos, there will be no control, and there will be lesser to no means to protect the victims of
these people. Why add to something when it is already working?

We have to consider that “other analogous circumstances” does not mean socio-economic
status. This brings me back to my previous statement that the offender has acted with
intelligence. The offender had an intention to commit a wrong, which already falls out of article
14 of the Revised Penal Code. We do not give a different interpretation to what the lawmakers
intended to mean. This is the reason why the Revised Penal Code had been worded this way,
to provide an accurate and working ways to control crimes.

We also know that penal laws can be applied retroactively if the law is in favor of the accused.
Therefore, ways can be done in order for this policy to be applied to previous offenders. This
cannot be considered as a benefit for them, why support a person who commits an offense by
dolo or culpa

The victims here will also easily become a target of poor people who will use this reason as a
means to commit a crime. As of the moment, the crime rate in the Philippines went down not
drastically, but noticeably, since the crimes can be controlled by the penalties provided in the
revised penal code alone. If this ever becomes a policy, the crime rates will go up, as offenders
will use this as a reason to escape the claws of justice. The victims will have lesser means to
protect themselves from the mitigating circumstance of socio-economic status, as lesser
penalties can be used as a means of escape from total liability.

There are more ways to provide to these people as parens patriae, like providing a way for
these families for further employment and other ways to financially support these families,
instead of using the socio-economic status to mitigate one’s liability.

This idea calls for chaos within the society. There is no need to change what is already working.
This is an idea that needs to be thrown in the garbage and burned. A lot of the interesting issues
and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But
they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.