Hmm cut off!
As I was saying Human Rights are Winston Curchill's Baby not Jaques Delors'
http://www.guardian.c...hts-act-conservatives
Love the idea that Universal Human rights shouldn't be applicable to some people.
Why should people have rights they don't afford to us?
Well if your 6 year old comes home and says that his fiend slapped him - do you storm out and slap the other child? Do you slap the parents?
No, ( well not most of you I reckon ). Tht would put you at the same level as them and decending to it would diminish your standing in the eyes of your friends and community.
It's the same thing. If for example we torture or allow people to be tortured because "they'd do the same to us" it demeans us and shows us as less civillised in the eyes of the world.
It's somewhat difficult to tell China to stop abusing their citizens if you're sending people to be waterboarded in Egypt.