Human Writes: Innocent lives are being lost in Duterte's bloody 'war on drugs'

A family picture with the coffin of five-year-old Danica Mae Garcia after a pre-burial mass. An unidentified gunman targeting Danica Mae's grandfather, Maximo Garcia, killed her while the family sat down to lunch at their home in Dagupan City, Pangasinan. The attack came just three days after Garcia had registered with local police in response to their suspicions of his involvement in the drug trade in 2016. Photo: CARLO GABUCO/Human Rights Watch

Do all lives matter? Just the same? Where and how do we draw a line defining whose lives matter?

That may seem an unspeakably inhuman idea, but humans do it all the time. Governments draw up many lines defining whose lives matter the most and least. They even pass laws about it.