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I'm not sure the values you talk of can be described as "western values". The actions you talk of are those of western governments not of western people. While
by welly 10y ago
I'm not sure the values you talk of can be described as "western values". The actions you talk of are those of western governments not of western people.
While some of what you say I absolutely agree with, particularly "freedom western society tolerates is the freedom to agree with their views.", the actions of my current government (Australian) and the actions of the government in my home nation (the UK) are absolutely abhorrent and I certainly don't endorse their behaviour.
But to be honest, are there values in any part of the world that are any better? There's certainly worse. Given a free choice of where I would choose to live, I'd pick western nations every single time, as while the behaviour of our governments is utterly disgusting, they do at the very least give its citizens freedom to behave mostly how we see fit and, to a degree, the freedom to affect change in government.