Who sets the standards for who is just or unjust?One mans threat is anothers freedom fighter.
2007-09-25 04:10:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
If someone has extended an invitation to a person and then calls him a brutal dictator when introducing him to a large audience, I would call the one who did the inviting a classless boor, regardless of the character of the guest.
2007-09-25 04:21:37 · answer #1 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The President of Columbia spoke his views. As it was unexpected what the Iranian President would say he came out strong. He runs the place. Like the students he can ask & say whatever. It was a format for education. The standards do not hold here when you have a leader like this one. The only thing he said openly was we don't have homosexuals in my country. Sure he murders them and has no shame in professing his extremest concepts. Good for the Columbia Pres to put it out there right away. He deserved nothing less in my opinion. Thank you.
*I heard reports Iran was pressuring the school to visit. They declined last year saying they had no security. Is that true?
2007-09-25 11:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually the standards follow what the UN has decreed. The Geneva Conventions are a very well-known facet of the "rules" used to decide if a country is being brutal or unfair.
2007-09-25 11:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by Serena 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dictatorship
noun
A government in which a single leader or party exercises absolute control over all citizens and every aspect of their lives: absolutism, autarchy, autocracy, despotism, monocracy, tyranny. See over/under, politics.
Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly: autocracy, despotism, totalitarianism, tyranny. See over/under, politics.
A political doctrine advocating the principle of absolute rule: absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, despotism, totalitarianism. See over/under, politics.
Example:
Saddam Hussein takes over leadership of Ba’ath Party. Becomes Iraqi President.
He instantly orders the execution of over twenty top leaders of his own Ba’ath Party and assumes total unconditional control of Iraq. Nazi-inspired full dictatorship is imposed. No freedom of expression. All political opposition outlawed. Countless Iraqis murdered by Saddam’s Security Department, run by his son. As an answer to Kurdish feelings of self-determination, an all out genocide of the Kurds is implemented. America turns a blind eye in exchange for oil concessions and guarantee that Iraq will not turn to the Soviet Union. In the meantime, Saddam Hussein establishes concentration camps throughout the land for people opposing his regime. [xii] 3000 Kurdish villages destroyed. One million Kurds and Turkomen are displaced. Hundreds of thousands live to this day in refugee camps in Iran under extreme conditions.
Saddam Hussein places his cousin General Ali Hassan Al-Majeed (dubbed ‘Chemical Ali’) in charge of the Kurdish genocide.
Halapja massacre [xvii] (03/16/88) “Chemical Ali” drops mustard gas, nerve agent surin, tabun and VX gas on Kurdish village. Five thousand (5000) die in minutes. Tens of thousands crippled.
Gassed Iraqi Kurdish Children: Victims of Saddam's Chemical Warfare.
2007-09-25 11:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by Michael F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
brutal
Pol Pot killed millions. When we caught him, the punishment was house arrest.
It appears Michael F, below, thinks Hussein was the biggest and maybe only dictator in the last century, which, as the rest of us know, was densely populated with dictators... many provisionally US allies.
The Republican mind gets stuck in a rut, I think.
2007-09-25 11:16:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't understand people like you appear to be. You are so tied up in your desire to appear open-minded that you are absolutely willing to overlook atrocities, because it might make YOU look like you are making a judgment. There are very simply universal rights and wrongs that any civilized person must evaluate another's actions by.
2007-09-25 11:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To answer your question, "Who sets the standards for who is just or unjust?" And my answer is . . . God sets the standard.
2007-09-25 11:16:51 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i completely agree with you and i think that is our problem, we are too busy looking at what affects us and not how something affects someone else.
2007-09-25 11:16:10 · answer #8 · answered by scott A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brtal???? what is brtal?
2007-09-25 11:14:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋