Who would be the judge? Some would say the US should be excluded based on that criteria.

As someone that lives in the US I wholeheartedly agree that we should be excluded

I wouldn't want to be in a WTO where the strongest member is China.

The good news is while the US should be excluded - so should China - it might just be Norway and Sweden sitting at a table eating some lutefisk[1].

1. Joke. In reality there are plenty of moral countries, but a lot of the economic powerhouses have clear exclusion reasons - Canada might get a seat at the table, along with Mexico perhaps.

and there exists the problem, and that will be the case unless an organization like the UN is actually given teeth

Well there seem to be some indices available.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

I don't think this is a reason not to use them but... right now no one cares about those indices - but as soon as they're between corporations and their profits then there will be a whole lot of lobbying and you'll likely see an index review committee headed up by Reginald Thomas III (son of Reginald Thomas II - CEO of Megacorp X) suddenly insert themselves into the official publication of those indices - then the quality and neutrality of them will drop.

Everyone is fine with you saying "Don't cut down the rain forest" until you actually stop people from cutting down the rain forest.

Making the US the absolute base level would still eliminate a good chunk of offenders

Historically, it might only eliminate 2-3 of them...

And the US absolutely is not respecting basic human rights. In fact, relative to the fact that the US has previously made significant effort to respect human rights, the current situation with respect to immigrant detainment and family separation (and intentional maltreatment of detainees) is worse than countries that have always oppressed or mistreated their people.

The US currently has no moral ground to preach from, and it should be ostracized until it collectively comes to its senses.

Not a single country here in Europe would be so tolerant on illegal economic immigration, America is extremely accepting. What other country lets people live so many undocumented immigrants in their country? The last refugee crisis literally tored EU apart.

I've lived most of my life in Texas. The Mexican immigrants here generally work as hard or harder than citizens, and they do hot dirty jobs that most Americans won't do. [edit] and the illegals work for less than legal pay because they have few options. They suck less from the government than the US citizens in the southern red states.

I guarantee that the immigrants are not tearing the US apart.

But there's context for all of those things, and I can rationalize them with my 6th grade civics understanding.

Those other people, who's history I don't understand? Oh, they're just bad.

I would also like to see the WTO to be completely empty.