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Entry: The Wrongs of "Rights" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wrongs_of_rights#7866 Post contents: @Keith I am afraid that you use flawed math when counting atrocities against children committed by the State vs. atrocities against children committed by their families. Atrocities committed by the State are called by their name, and thus counted. Atrocities committed by their families, as long as they are within cultural norms are dismissed and never make it into statisitcs. Thus when a culture practices "honor killings", which means the murder of an unmarried girl who got pregnant, or one who was raped, is seen as a question of "culture" even when the execution is carried out by burning alive. So, if I have to choose by atrocities which are called by their proper name, and thus move people to act against them, and atrocities which are dismissed as "cultural differences" and therefore none of any bystanders's problem, then I know what to choose. Sent at: 2008 07 08