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I don't care how high the "democracy score" of the country is. I care about how well people's rights are defended.

• p1esk 5y ago
  How do you measure that?
  • frankfrankfrank 5y ago
    People's, i.e., human rights are rather well established at this point and it is also not a difficult task to monitor and track whether those people/human rights are respected. Even if it could become a rather labour intensive effort if one wanted to, possibly unnecessarily, monitor and track human rights protections and even defence down to the granular/individual level. The real challenge here is not at all a practical one, it's a power problem, those who have the power and control … at all the different levels … have absolutely no interest and jealously will combat the actual tracking and recording of things like whether they are protecting, violating, or defending human rights; because they very well would not fare well under the scrutiny of a truly objective evaluation. Those who have power have zero appreciation for anything that will weaken the perception of their power, because most power is a psychological thing.
• frankfrankfrank 5y ago
  I totally agree, especially since "democracy" has been perverted into little more than absolute meaningless and even in many ways into something that is the inverse of democracy. But that is also a rather loaded statement to make here, because this community and the stakeholders in particular are extremely invested in things that do not at all defend, let alone even respect humans' rights. And that's all I will say, because there is no expectation that the human right to free expression will be respected here, let alone defended.