Hans-Peter Fischer wrote: > Oh yeah, human rights like keeping prisoners in 1.8 x 2.4 m wire mesh > cages, right?
And are prison cells in Germany much larger? No! And prisoners don't have the nice surround-view nor pleasant tropical climate as the AlKaida terrorists and murderers (let's not forget that fact). > Or like sending prisoners abroad to have them tortured, > because the US are too morally "superior" of course to torture them in > their own country. Tortured, who/where? That's new to me. I would certainly not agree with that. > Or like practising legalized murder (death penalty). Who's on the high and mighty holier than thow position now. Let's not forget that people subjected to the death penalty are generally people who have ruthlessly and viciously taken the life/lives of innocents. Having said that, I disagree with the death penalty - I just don't see it as *that* big an issue, considering who is being executed (surely not pollitical dissenters, as in the countries you defend by implication). > Or like denying prisoners unable to pay for it the right to have > competent legal assistance in court. Everyone gets (competent) legal assistance in the US. If you go to a country, you must be prepared to abide by its laws and subject yourself to its punishments (unless they are grossly unjust (e.g., execution for drug smuggling). > Or like denying foreign prisoners > the right to contact their embassy before being legally murdered (of > which the US was found guilty recently by the International Court of > Justice after having been sued by the German government, by the way). I thought everyone had at *least* one phonecall. > If that's what you call "better culture" I prefer an inferior one. Being wrong is a choice you are allowed to make. You somehow fail to see the forest for the trees. I suggest you recalculate the sum of all that is positive about american culture and compare it to the defficiencies. You should then come up with a similar conclusion to mine. ;) > But > somehow I doubt that you even know what "culture" means. Maybe it means something different to everyone. To me it is a set of beliefs, behavior patterns, laws, habbits, etc. that define a person or group of persons. ... I just looked it up on dictionary.com - their definition is pretty close to mine. Perhaps *you* don't know. :-P -- Regards, Peter Lairo
