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Joonas Uotinen
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Undermining globally agreeable human rights
October 25, 2009 - 05:28 AM
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Strike the people without morals down! Or even better: teach them the correct morals benevolently and with patience. Aid the underdeveloped countries to join the global markets and teach them how to build up a state and run it! ...Iraq and Afghanistan as well as crusades and imperialism. Imperialism at the time was accepted because it brought the great values of west to the "barbarians".
A question has been bothering me for some time now. I've heard criticism about UN as a continuation for western policies with its human rights declaration crystallizing the western values that come from the French Revolution and US human rights declaration.
How does this history relate to contemporary times? Here comes the criticism about values. History studies is divided into two schools of thought: objective values and subjective values.
Objective values mean that you can judge anybody's actions with somekind of objective ruler of values, that there are highest moral standards and everything can be assessed by comparing the actions and values of societies to those "correct" moral standards. This kind of thought can be found strong in US, France and UK but is now spreading.
The relative values mean that no-one can judge anybody from another cultural context with his own values. This shakes hands with lingvistics which states that even language, the tissue of our mind, is given by the cultural context and the meanings of concepts varies and hence the world looks very different for people from different cultures. Now how can somebody from a different cultural context, a different world, go and tell the cultures, or societies, what is right and what is wrong if even the very world they see is different.
An example: there seems to be a consensus that capitalism and the values, pursuing belongings and money and investing it forwards, strongly related to it are the solutions to problems around the world. We should link those poor and less-developed states to the global markets so that they can have a share of the west's superior system and morals.
Then again, I can see many peoples' lives empty. It is a constant pursue for something. In contrast, many of the eastern societies used to only pursue harmony inside their minds and with their environment. Why didn't India and China develop a capitalist state through industrialization when they had the technology and knowledge for it? Did they lack the "spirit" of capitalism? This means the pursue of capita in order to invest it further. -> the money flow that brings wealth to us all.
UN, US, France and my values, are they better than the values of my coeval living in the kingdom of Bhutan? Should I go and tell him that his way of life is wrong and if he doesn't accept it teach him or do it by force?
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