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Originally Posted by blankall
The policy your talking about would just result in a bunch of isolated dictatorships selling oil to China. There would be no reform there either.
What needs to be done is for major bodies like the United Nations to actually start holding up basic human rights. There needs to be real consequences for doing things like executing gays and minorities.
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As CaptainYooh mentioned, that's not really the UN's mandate. I have long dreamed of a UN with teeth. Even a military of sorts, a responsible organization that can defend human rights. But you know that's not the way it would end up. There's no way that could even be created at that point in world history. Nearly every nation in the world would see it as an affront to their sovereignty. Shoot, even the US makes ridiculous claims about that already with the UN as it stands now. It's far to 'one world' for a lot of people to get behind. And even if it did get traction you'd see a lot of nations leave the UN cause they'd want no part of it, or the UN at that point.
Not to mention the very real danger, when just like any organization, it becomes corrupt, even bought by the lobbies and the wealthy. A sanctioned UN military that isn't living by it's mandate anymore? Yikes!
It's a great thought, but the world just isn't moral enough for it now. All we can do now is just talk at each other. Which often seems pointless and counter-productive. But it's the best thing we've got, and does make a real difference every once in a while.
Human rights will just have to be defended by negotiations and charity until then. Not great, I agree, but it's all we can do.