> freedom Well a lot of people criticize our freedom to bear arms. People criticize free speech a lot. Despite what you've been told, freedom isn't held in hig

> freedom Well a lot of people criticize our freedom to bear arms. People criticize free speech a lot. Despite what you've been told, freedom isn't held in high regard anywhere really. We just give it a lot of lip service. > human rights What is it? UN declaration of human rights originally had absolute "free speech". Then they started limiting it to protect religions, identity, etc. One human right is for free assembly and community. Another is for free movement. What happens when these "human rights" collide? Healthcare is a "human right". Should other nations invade the US to give us our "human rights"? Right to life is a human right? Should people who believe fetuses are persons invade to stop abortions? Things aren't as black and white as you think they are. Whose human right is more valuable? > and democracy [representative government] There are plenty of arguments against democracy. Go read about the founding fathers and their opinions of democracy. That hated the idea so much that they created a government to guard against democracy and only gave voting rights to a tiny fraction of the nation. The first presidential election ( for Washington ) had low single digit voting percentage. Naively talking about "freedom, human rights, and democracy" sounds great at a superficial level, but when you get down to details, it isn't as straightforward and rosy as you think. The only people who talk about freedom, human rights, and democracy so cavalierly are those who never actually thought about it. Frankly, the only thing "freedom, human rights, and democracy" has been used for in the past few decades is to use it to justify invading other countries. I'm sure all the millions of murdered vietnamese, iraqis, south americans, etc sure appreciate the "freedom, human rights, and democracy" we've dropped on them. It's pretty much a repackaged neocolonial "white man's burden".