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0 pointsVolpe14y ago0 comments

> The goal of a country is to allow her citizens to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

I think you mean just one country there... Generalising to all countries is a little ethnocentric, no?

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I meant what I wrote.

Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness are natural rights of man, not [1] 'contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable.'

Human-centric, perhaps. Not ethnocentric.

[1] cut and pasted from wiki to save typing.

VolpeOP14y ago

... That's complete crap, not all cultures believe that.

Even the concept of 'individual rights' is a western concept. Ever considered the possibility that we (humans) don't have rights.

Again, ethnocentric, just because you think the world should be like that, doesn't mean the rest of the world wants that. This is the kind of crap the british empire believed that it was "educating the barbarians" it's just an excuse to destroy other peoples culture.

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TruthElixirX14y ago

That was his point. Read the rest of his comment.

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