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**NikolaAAA** · 08-25-2009, 10:46 PM

The problem Lori was pointing out is that for every high profile case there are thousands of people around the world who are tortured as part of routine police investigations. The public perception appears to be one of either blissful ignorance, or apathy.

The lower standard isn't official government posture (although the State department is as prone to error as anything else made by man) but rather the attitude that some in the West feel about their inherent superiority. It seems like many still regard Africans and Asians as childish retards, barely capable of making the right decision unless guided by the hands of enlightened white men. The people there are just as culpable for their mistakes as any of us.

Um, no. Stop being retarded. People in the West appear to care more about what their countries are doing because they LIVE in them or are very close allies with those countries and thus work in close contact with them.

In addition, the US has had the greatest moral force since WW2 among the free world (tm) [mostly because the US has told so many people how they are violating human rights over the years], so it tends to create a really bad example when it starts torturing people. Its like if Mahatma Gandhi started electrocuting British officers balls.

08-25-2009, 10:46 PM	#18
NikolaAAA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 394 Senior Member	The problem Lori was pointing out is that for every high profile case there are thousands of people around the world who are tortured as part of routine police investigations. The public perception appears to be one of either blissful ignorance, or apathy. The lower standard isn't official government posture (although the State department is as prone to error as anything else made by man) but rather the attitude that some in the West feel about their inherent superiority. It seems like many still regard Africans and Asians as childish retards, barely capable of making the right decision unless guided by the hands of enlightened white men. The people there are just as culpable for their mistakes as any of us. Um, no. Stop being retarded. People in the West appear to care more about what their countries are doing because they LIVE in them or are very close allies with those countries and thus work in close contact with them. In addition, the US has had the greatest moral force since WW2 among the free world (tm) [mostly because the US has told so many people how they are violating human rights over the years], so it tends to create a really bad example when it starts torturing people. Its like if Mahatma Gandhi started electrocuting British officers balls.
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