"But, it still doesn't seem just or fair. Do human rights belong to everyone no matter how they act towards their fellow human? No matter whether they act in a way that respects other's human rights?" Yes. Even murderers have human rights. I can only judge people based on my own morale. I think it is wrong to kill, therefore I could never live with the Death penalty, however deserving it may seem sometimes for people who behave like animals. I wouldn't want to be in the jury and send someone to death row, if there was only a hint of a chance that I might be wrong, which there always is. I wouldn't want to be the one to push the button of the chair, place the final injection. I could never sleep again if I knew someone had died because of me. However guilty he might have been. I would feel as if I'm on the same level.
"And as far as the US requesting other nations to try and convict those responsible for various crimes committed in the US, what's to say that that nation won't be more inhumane than the US?" Also very true. It is easy to bash the US. Everybody has an opinion, there is plenty wrong, loads of people will agree. But I'd still rather be in a US court than in a court in Nigeria. Or China. Or another couple of dozen countries. But that doesn't meant the US courts are doing well. They are not. Plenty of countries have got a better legal system, that's why I started critisizing the US in the first place. (entry june 15).
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Date: 2001-09-14 12:27 pm (UTC)Yes. Even murderers have human rights. I can only judge people based on my own morale. I think it is wrong to kill, therefore I could never live with the Death penalty, however deserving it may seem sometimes for people who behave like animals. I wouldn't want to be in the jury and send someone to death row, if there was only a hint of a chance that I might be wrong, which there always is. I wouldn't want to be the one to push the button of the chair, place the final injection. I could never sleep again if I knew someone had died because of me. However guilty he might have been. I would feel as if I'm on the same level.
"And as far as the US requesting other nations to try and convict those responsible for various crimes committed in the US, what's to say that that nation won't be more inhumane than the US?"
Also very true. It is easy to bash the US. Everybody has an opinion, there is plenty wrong, loads of people will agree. But I'd still rather be in a US court than in a court in Nigeria. Or China. Or another couple of dozen countries. But that doesn't meant the US courts are doing well. They are not. Plenty of countries have got a better legal system, that's why I started critisizing the US in the first place. (entry june 15).