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Ironic, yes. That's one huge flaw in the UN and why Clinton bypassed the UN on the Kosovo thing. The UN does not requires countries to follow its rules as a requisite for participation in things like the human rights commission. That makes the UN a laughingstock on some issues. Heck, perhaps the EU will eventually supercede the UN?CaptainQuasar said:You realize that the Soviet Union and Communist China were both major contributors to the U.N.'s doctrines on human rights, don't you?
Neverthelesss, the document exists and even if the UN won't hold people to it, we will. [sometimes...]
And regarldess, you've glossed over my point for showing this: The point is that rights on a basic level are non-negotiable. Again: you cannot vote these rights away.
You are again missing the basic point about what rights are. This is a negative right. You don't have a right for the government to provide you with a job, you have the right not to be denied work. Again, yes, you are confusing rights and entitlements.Check out Article 23 in the document you linked to. The right to work. Which you just declared cannot be a right and must be an entitlement.
That said, you picked on [one half of] one of the major ones that makes full socialism essentially illegal.
No, it isn't quite that simple, but it is pretty close. Anyway, really, our system is common to a lot of western countries.The U.S. system of rights was adopted by the U.N., eh? Not quite as simple as you think, dude.
That's not what makes us the world leader on this, though. What makes us the world leader is that we lead. When other countries won't act, we do. The fact that we stand up for things others believe but won't stand up for gives us moral authority they do not have.
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