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Originally Posted by moon
Who is saying it is right?
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Fair enough, but if we're living in world in which we give institutions such as the UN a moral right to act for "Human Rights" then we are talking about a moral imperative. I suppose listing rape as a war crime says its right or wrong. Look, I realize that inflicting western morality on non western cultures is the heart of Imperialism, but we can't have it both ways. Either we believe in universality of human rights, and we act on it. Or we believe in the sanctity national sovereignty and cultural relativism. I think the debate we are having right now goes far deeper than legal semantics.