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If Human Rights stem from the West, why does the West think all cultures/countries must follow it letter for letter? Shouldn't regions dictate their own morality instead of being told what is right and wrong?
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I don't disagree with the concept of human rights entirely but I feel as though the only thing that could unite the majority of humans unilaterally is that unprovoked killing is wrong. Besides that, I personally think no culture should enforce its beliefs on another from such a great distance away. Most of human rights were made with a predominantly western-ideal of what is good or bad. Obviously that may work for the West but Chinese, Burmese, Siamese, Congolese, Aboriginal, and Somalian culture (to name a few of many others) do not have morality completely steeped in Western ideals. After all they developed differently and their morals are consistent with their own history and tradition.

Also, more Western aligned countries get their human rights violations less regarded than those of different camps ideologically/politically/etc which ruins the entire point. If you are going to set a rule for all, everyone should be equally punished for the same crime. Even now the Western world has a lot of influence for better or for ill. France has been intervening in Africa for their personal gain and the US probably has done a lot more than we know. I don't really care if the West is a "bastions of liberty" because quite frankly most of what we consume is largely Western media. If the Chinese dominated the world to the extent the West did, we'd be doing a lot more similarly to them and human rights would be more Sinicized rather than Westernized.

There are arguments that suggest human rights are "Western Imperialism" and I will neither agree nor disagree since I merely think cultures should set their own morality as long as it doesn't affect other countries. I personally could not care if a culture is the extremely alien from ours so long as they don't make us follow their ways. For example I wouldn't care if Sharia existed in some Muslim countries as long as they don't force that on us and vice versa. At the end of the day morality is not a single thing in the entire big world we live in.

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