"John D. Giorgis" schreef:
> I apologize that my choice of words was a bit unclear, but what I intended
> to say was that the United States has introduced more new, positive,
> ethical constructs into world opinion in the past 100 years than any other.
>
> I think that there is little disagreement that the United States originated
> the ethical constructs of:
> 1) The United Nations as a means of world peace
> 2) The policy of "malice towards none, charity towards all" for our
> defeated enemies
I thought that was a very old Swiss concept. Even resulted in an international
organisation. I believe they call it the International Red Cross or something.
;o)
> 3) The "Clinton Doctrine" that sovereignty does not permit atrocities.
I believe the Belgians beat you to it. Their law states that anyone living in
Belgium can file a complaint against anybody in the world if it concerns human
rights violations. And they already are desperatly looking into ways of
changing that law because it had some rather unexpected side effects. Like that
case they wanted against Pinochet. <grin>
> That's three right there. I doubt that anyone can identify a list of new
> ethical advances that is as long for any other nation.
China
1. not shooting masses of people but using the legal system to get them
convicted and then shoot them.
2. not allocating people into camps if they are in the way of construction
works for the olympic games, but paying people to move to another location.
3. foreigners entering the country and leaving unharmed and richer.
Sonja ;o)
