Are human rights right or wrong?

“I came to liberate you but before I liberate you I have to kill you”
An American soldier to Iraqi citizen



http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul....man-rights.html
Why human rights are wrong?
Human rights conflict with the principle of moral autonomy, and form an excuse for oppression. Any harm to others can be justified by claiming that it is intended to respect certain 'rights', even if the victim does not know of their existence. Revised June 2004.

A Serbian or Iraqi child who is shot to enforce human rights, suffers just as much pain, as an American or British child. Yet the US and British governments do not kill or injure their own citizens, to protect their human rights. That fate is reserved for Eastern Europeans, Arabs, Africans, and Asians. The western human rights lobby claims, that it is wrong to deny people human rights. They claim opposition to human rights is based on 'ethical relativism', and that their own 'moral universalism' is superior. Yet they would not bomb their own cities like they bombed Belgrade or Falluja or remote Afghan villages. Clearly, the 'moral universalism' of the human rights lobby is itself relative: it is turned on and off to conform to geopolitical interests. It was never much more than a propaganda slogan anyway………………………………………..

Human rights are right. It is human beings who are wrong.

Imperialistic or self righteous agendas set forth by other invading nations in order to establish their moral or political superiority should be outlawed. We have the right to defend ourselves as a nation, in our nation. We do not have the right to decide if other people or nations need our help, nor should we in any way jeapordize the lives of innocent people and excuse it as self defense when no clear threat is present.

Geez. Some people just can't appreciate irony...

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"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity, myself especially, are in a state of shock and disbelief." - Alan Greenspan

Iaca wrote,
So your position is that we're better off without them?

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"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity, myself especially, are in a state of shock and disbelief." - Alan Greenspan

I can understand why Laca is so concerned about human rights in Iraq.

If he dared to write about human rights in his homeland, he'd be arrested and imprisoned:

Matt

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De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

Well, in Australia, where he lives, he has plenty of rights. I am about tired of his portrayal of living in Cuba.

It is getting seriously old...even older than his drivel in general.

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There really is no such thing as "human rights".

There is only human will to enforce laws (and human will to ignore same).