Human rights are made up. What might be considered a human right to you may not be considered a human right to the Chinese government.
You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values.
You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values.
Do you think women shouldn't have rights too, if a country's government doesn't think they are worthy?
That we shouldn't care about the treatment of migrant workers in the Middle East?
Apartheid was fine? Slavery?
I mean, as long as the country's government thinks so, and the "cultural values are different".
It's honestly disheartening to read a comment such as yours here.
So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values? Or I need to gather some minimal number of fellow slave owners, so I can declare it 'culture'?
>So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values?
Keep in mind that owning a slave is illegal in many places. Laws are also shaped by culture. So if you moved somewhere were slaves were legal then yes you could.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read on HN.
It isn't like the Hubble Deep Field has a pattern that spells out "all human beings are born free and equal" or something.