The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-05-2020, 09:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-05-2020, 05:55 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-05-2020, 04:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: War crimes and criminal violations of human rights would both be impeachable. Such qualify as "high crimes". Of course the sort of regime that does such is usually exempt from legal judgment until overthrown in a coup, utter defeat, or a successful revolution. We are not there in either sense.

Is the Right to Life a human right?

Not if you're a liberal these days.

Admittedly, the right to life did not make it into Eleanor Roosevelt's and the UN's list of human rights.  It shows up more in novels and debates.  Still, most crimes are also civil rights violations.  You are taking away various things that are prized, with or without association with a right.  So, murder is not a human rights violation?  Whatever.  I don't think it much of a hot partisan question, but at least early on in the coronavirus problem Republicans (at least the Establishment type) valued property more, Democrats valued life more.  I would say the importance of these values goes with what the groups think is important.

We will see how your people from the center of the country think when it is their life that is at risk.