This is absurd. I'd rather just play rock-paper-scissors (bato bato pick) 😢

How much pressure they must have felt… their bodies were screaming to come up for air, yet they didn't listen to that cry because of a piece of land. 😩

There are countless ways to solve this problem with the options available these days. Handling it like this is pure foolishness. It's like a children's game of who can hold their breath longer underwater. And this time, no one won. RIP.

I asked Gemini, and apparently this is a B'laan tradition. The B'laan are Lumad and non-Muslim, and this conflict resolution method is linked to pre-colonial ancient beliefs. Basically, they pray to the diwata (spirits) to help determine who is right and who is wrong, and the party that's wrong is supposed to be the first to rise up gasping for breath. But this time, both of them just drowned themselves over land.

Got what they wanted. Now there's land six feet under