Using your power, whether it's your vote, your money, or your vocal platform, to deny other humans basic rights for no valid reason I have to laugh every time

Using your power, whether it's your vote, your money, or your vocal platform, to deny other humans basic rights for no valid reason I have to laugh every time someone uses this argument. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ I could quote some choice passages, but you should really read it in full. I'm pretty sure every single last one of you has "voted or supported with your vocal platform" positions or politicians taking positions that are directly contrary to what's in there. We're in a society where even in the most progressive of places we're so far away from this ideal, that whenever someone claims something isn't a political issue because it's "obviously the right thing", I want to throw up.