To them I offer these words from the late Senator Jose Diokno, that great

champion of human rights, who wrote them to his son during the dark days of the
dictatorship:

Why be honest when it pays to be dishonest? Why be fair to others when they
are unfair to you? Why fight for others when they won’t fight for you?—or even
for themselves? Why think for yourself when it is easier to let others think for
you? Why lead when it is less troublesome to obey? Why have principles when
others don't- and they often get away with it?. . .The answer I think lies in what
life means to you. If life means having a good time, money, fame, power, security
—then you don’t need principles; all you need are techniques. In fact, it's better
not to have principles; they would just get in your way. On the other hand, if
happiness means more than a good time, respect more than fame, right more
than power, and peace of soul more than security; if death doesn’t end life but
transforms it, then you must be true to yourself and to God, and to love the truth,
justice and freedom that are God’s other names...