Title states all, Vietnam is a country that fought for it's independence, fought off multiple invaders including 2 industrialized western superpower nations, and now is one of the fastest growing economies in East Asia and is generally speaking seen as a positive nation on the global stage, without all of the baggage that China or North Korea carry. Obviously this is an abridged understanding of Vietnam but on paper it looks good, unless there's some brave posters willing to tell me otherwise?
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The consequences of the concept of individual rights has been a disaster for the world.
I'd argue individual rights aren't bad themselves, but rather the particular concept of them that we are taught in the US, which amounts to basically the right to do whatever you want without the gubberment telling you not to.
Yeah, the fact that most western countries only see rights through the lense of the individual has led to the exhaltation of the individual as the only thing that matters.
the individual is declared important, because humanity is made up of individuals.
but the exhaltation of the individual has nothing to do with the embetterment of the vast majority of individuals.
the rights of the collective, being made up of individuals, are intrinsically more valuable than those of any single individual.
:bean-think:
why would some individuals object to viewing the collective as a tallying up of individuals, and insist that it is instead an alternative that is wholly incompatable with the individual?
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West often refuses to view many other people on this planet as human. The idea of child's rights (the real "No, you can't abuse your kid" kind not the weird thing groomers talk about) is something many people in the West are actually highly reluctant towards. They very much view children as property and it is horrible.