PACE hearing on Julian Assange's detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights
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Obviously he's innocent, but I'm 100% against "human rights"; which is just an excuse to favour the guilty over the innocent or the vermin over the patriot
How human rights are applied are the issue, not the rights themselves.
E.g. someone say... Intentionally shoots and kills a child.
There should be no expectation of rehabilitation for a crime like that and so their human rights should be forfeit and they should be executed when evidence is sufficient for guilt.
Burden of evidence would have to go up alongside stricter penalties, but people would think twice about the crimes if they knew nothing awaits them but death.
Not to sound like an old Wehrmacht soldier, but it comes down to natural law and natural rights. Those are intrinsic. Human rights, civil rights - those are own to interpretation and enforcement (or lack thereof).
Right to exist. To protect and defend. Life. Liberty. Property. Pursuit of happiness.
You violate those of another without cause, you risk having your natural rights snuffed out.
And that is as it should be.
Natural law and natural rights are irrelevant, because it comes down to a moral belief system. Where those rights aren't recognized, they don't exist in the same way any other rights don't exist.
Civil and human rights are down to interpretation, correct -- but are ideally intended to translate that belief of natural rights into something more widely recognizable and enforceable.
So you'd harm the innocent to punish the guilty? That's profoundly immoral and wicked.
Hey I heard a REALLY serious rumor about you... I think I'm gonna report it to the secret police and let them extract a confession out of you. Thankfully they took your advice and accepted a lower standard of evidence.
Not impossible, but this is why the application of human rights is the issue.
This is unspeakably retarded with the massive history of falsely accused being killed only to be vindicated post-death, which is exactly why it IS so hard to execute people today.
What do you do when someone is executed for crimes they don't commit? "Oh, fuck, I'm sorry"? That's not good enough, that's not acceptable.
"We'll do better next time"?
That's raising the bar for evidence.