Reply #37: Re-read it. Still reads the same to me [View All]

[Nuclear Unicorn]

I understand the concept of legal frameworks, processes of law etc.

The concept of human rights, however, by its very construction as a concept says that there is something higher than local law and custom. What some law in any country, be it the US or Asia or Latin America or wherever, says about how the press is to be viewed and/or held liable pales when held up to the notion that humans are free only if they have freedom of conscience and the freedom to express it without fear of reprisal.

But hey, if Pinochet had a law that turned dissidents over to his internal security intelligence aparatus then that is Latin American law and we should accept it as such because our concepts are not their conepts.

I suppose next you will suggest I'm too benighted to merit further discourse.