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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (9514)2/29/2000 2:32:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 9980
 
For your information, rights and security often do not go hand in hand: they may even be at odds with one another in the short run. Many Americans would say that it would be an infringement of their rights for the government to prohibit them from owning a gun. Moreover- as I have said before to you on this thread, and you did not bother responding to the claim- the presence of many criminals in this country does not address the question of whether or not government is suppressing peoples rights, and that is what China is accused of of doing

Many Asians - and I'm not really thinking of China here - would say that security is more important than individual rights, that the primary function of government is to protect citizens from threats posed by either other countries or by fellow citizens, and that the US government is standing idly by and allowing citizens to be robbed of their most fundamental rights. Many feel that if some government suppression of individual rights is required to correct this situation, that would be justified.

Many Asians believe that a primary function of government is to provide an orderly living environment, even if that clashes with the Western notion of human rights.

Not by any means trying to justify Chinese actions here (thinking more of Singapore), but there are fundamental problems with allowing one culture to declare that its own notion of human rights is universal.

If they choose to order their societies according to their cultural priorities, are we entitled to complain?
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