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The UDHR is full of statements that wouldn't even be agreed upon in a room full of people in the US, let alone around the whole world: > The family is the natu
by gottorf 25d ago
The UDHR is full of statements that wouldn't even be agreed upon in a room full of people in the US, let alone around the whole world:
> The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Social progressives would strongly disagree.
> Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
Communists would strongly disagree.
> Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Several UN member states that are absolute monarchies would strongly disagree.
We could go on and on. The UDHR is just a distillation of the postwar liberal consensus, voted on by only 58 countries back in 1948. Hardly the stuff that moral authorities are made of.