(December 27, 2014 at 1:25 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I mean minus being an authoritarian one-party state, and their record on human rights, China is ideal.
Their human right record is 800 million people given real choices in life where as they would otherwise have been bound to crawl miserably through life hand to mouth along a grinding and often short trajectory fixed to not very fertile dirt since the late Iron Age.
That trumps a billion votes not cast, or a billion mouth not allowed to say some of the things that might have come to their mind.
That is vastly more to real human rights than what we feel would entice other people to think in a way we would find comfortingly confirmatory of our own, not all together sincerely held, political philosophical views.