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Human rights are like technology: they usually increase monotonically and irreversibly. It's the responsibility of the entire society to create consensus on inc
by return0 10y ago
Human rights are like technology: they usually increase monotonically and irreversibly. It's the responsibility of the entire society to create consensus on increased freedom, and they are unlikely to be imposed externally without creating conflict and civil war. One could say that the economic progress that the west has brought to china will be more successful in overtaking authoritarianism than the usual military 'democratization' campaigns.
- lazylizard 10y agowhat if its not linear but cyclical , only the cycle is around 1000 yrs long?
- cletus 10y agoI think this is a narrow view based on very recent history. What about the rise of Communism in the 20th century? Or Nazi Germany for that matter? Or slavery? I guess you could argue all of these were transitory (albeit devastating) but isn't everything? Probably one of the more modern notions is that the current state of world affairs is somehow permanent. This complacency is both naiv and dangerous.
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