Petr Drulák: “Foreign human rights policy in its current form is burdened with such errors and contradictions that it either has no human rights effect or, on the contrary, harms people.”
No one can dispute that. Unnecessary wars, unnecessary embargoes, hundreds of thousands of deaths and the establishment of far worse regimes. Not once in the last twenty years has any Western attempt to introduce democracy or human rights ended in disaster.
So the various human rights concepts are compared by how they contribute to corporate profits.
But there should be no mistaking that it is possible to brood over this and come up with a better human rights policy. That is impossible in principle. The way it works is that when someone wants to carry out some wonderful humanitarian project backed by military force, they need to form an alliance with someone rich and powerful. Without them, nothing will get through. And the rich and powerful will only go for it if they can make enough money out of it (no matter what they say). So the various human rights concepts are compared by how they contribute to corporate profits. Only those who can offer high profits will win. And therein lies the rub. Even if someone comes up with a clever, selfless and helpful concept, it will never be put into practice. And that’s also why in large and successful humanitarian nonprofits you will exclusively meet thugs who have dishonesty staring them in the face.
