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Human Rights are about as real as money: you can claim it's a made-up social concept, but good luck denying its worth.
by Hasknewbie 10y ago
Human Rights are about as real as money: you can claim it's a made-up social concept, but good luck denying its worth.
- Amezarak 10y agoSure, that's a good analogy. Human rights are a currency printed by the West. They have a lot of weight because of the political and economic weight of the west. But they're still fundamentally Western, and not everyone accepts that currency.
- Hasknewbie 10y agoTaiwan never was colonized by a Western power, and they are the most progressive democracy in Asia (quirky-folksy democracy, but democracy nonetheless). Thailand never was colonized at all, and it sucks for them right now, but there are many democrats there. In fact during the colonial era Western powers considered democracy "non-exportable" (for obvious self-serving reasons), yet it was used as a moral and ideological weapon by many independence movements (India springs to mind). So not really "printed by the West".