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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by pavlov on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:10AM (#6740164)
China's total lack of an independent justice system and the resulting atrocities is not news, but bears repeating.

If you don't believe in universal human rights, there's probably nothing I can say to convince you otherwise. I guess the 20th century's bloody history didn't teach mankind very much, when people still look up to "thriving" nationalist states that build economic growth on the tortured flesh of their citizens.

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by philwelch on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:12PM (#6740602)
I don't like when other countries execute large numbers of people for reasons I disagree with, but I'm not going to go over to China and tell them how to run their country.
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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by toomuchtodo on Friday November 15, 2013 @05:25PM (#6742575)
> but I'm not going to go over to China and tell them how to run their country.

That's the problem. Your (as a country or people) culture ends where basic human rights begin.

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by philwelch on Friday November 15, 2013 @09:54PM (#6743362)
Maybe that's how it works in your culture. But no, I don't think there's any such thing as universal human rights, or at the very least, that such a notion is just cultural imperialism with a friendly face.
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