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The cultural relativism is literally making me sick. I can't understand how anyone can brush this off by saying, "well, it's their law and she should have obeyed it." Throughout history, humankind has worked endlessly to triumph over unjust governments, and once they're gone, we stop caring and let them take over again. The whole fucking world should be working to stop this kind of abuse.
I can't come up with words strong enough to describe my feeligns on this particular situation. I have enough issues with the death penalty being used on people who actually did something wrong, like killing others, but to use it for something like drug trafficking stirs up anger and disgust in me that, once again, is beyond the realm of what I can find words to describe. If a citizen of a country over which I presided were in this situation, I would not hesitate to send a special forces military unit in to rescue them.
Additionally, and this is why I'll probably never make it into any sort of major political office, I would refuse to have any sort of diplomatic relations or trade with any country that so blatantly violated human rights. Fundamentalist states whose governments execute people for "immorality," totalitarian states that execute and murder their own citizens for dissent, and any country with policies that oppress anyone who does not violate the rights of others fall into this category.
Honestly, the fact that 2 million years of evolution and thousands of years of widespread social progress can't bring us past this kind of barbarism brings me to a sort of apathetic attitude toward the fact that global warming will bake most of us off the face of the planet in the next few hundred years. Maybe if we have to unite to work against something that threatens us more than we threaten each other, we'll get past the phase where we let oppressive governments kill us for doing nothing wrong.
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