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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Human rights are only promoted and protected by western countries (or any countries for that matter) when it makes economic sense. We have no problem turning a blind eye to human rights issues as long as they allow our companies to do business with them and supply us with cheap labour and/or resources to maintain our lifestyles
Looking at human history and not just the past 50 years, human rights were barely an issue at all. There is nothing about human society that makes me think the past 50 years aren't a fad in what is actually a pretty brutal history for our species. Even today, I'd say well less than half the people alive live in a country that places a priority on human rights.
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I would take it one step further and say most if not all the global population live in a country that place a true value on human rights. Is that harsh? Yeah it is. But in a world where states act based on a power maximizing scheme, the value even in the west isn't on human rights at all. It is on that states self interest.