Liberty of Women
I discuss a lot with friends about women’s rights, and time and again, we return the human rights bootstrapping paradox: those who don’t stand up for themselves are not to blame because their culture keeps uneducated and abused. For example, if one is kept uneducated and ignorant for their entire life, one doesn’t know that they can’t see a better choice. These women are in a catch-22 - they can’t liberate themselves until we give them the idea that they need to be liberated.
The problem is that, I believe, this argument is the same argument of why should a man stop raping a woman as punishment and control because his culture also keeps him uneducated and an abuser. The flip side of the coin: men in the same cultures shouldn’t be blamed because the cultures which says it’s ok. Which everyone in the western civilization and many outside it say, “That’s total bullshit.” Men who do rape women with impunity in Congo can be targeted for war crimes - heinous, but it’s a bizarrely acceptable catch-22.
By becoming the “police of the world,” UN world leaders (America, France, England, Russia, etc.) are taking on more than a role to pacify the world, but to interfere willingly. I’m not too sure that this is a good approach, but the alternative is to let countries like Myanmar to willingly let their people die in large droves, and to let Sierra Leone and Congo to use rape as governmental indoctrination of women - which is a sad case in deed.
My recommendation is that we establish a line of economic and military support and enforce it. We can do special exceptions, but at least on paper, we’ve said, if you want to do business with us, here’s the bar your country much reach.
Freedom and political liberty cannot be given, they must be asserted by the body politic. To attempt interference is to create another Iraq.


