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Originally Posted by Mancie
the maastricht treaty that the then Tory Government signed up to around 1995...no confusion here... the human rights act may have been put forward in the 50's but your party signed up for the european rights act at Maastrict.. an act that imposed european law on all member states ..yeah?
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I always wonder why people make so much fuss about human rights and Europe when we're also a member of United Nations which demands respect of human rights as well.
At the end of the day, if people want to act like animals then I think they shouldn't belong to a civilised society like those which are a part of these agreements and alliances, and that goes for those who wants to act like animals when they punish people as well.
Why punish pain with pain?
I hate to make such a comparison but if anyone watches casualty they'll know that last weeks episode involved a little boy who punished the boy that was bullying him by locking him into a dark space, something which his grandad did to him. The consequences just resulted in more harm than good, in the case of both boys.
Look at the woman in Laos up for death by firing squad for trafficking drugs. She's pregnant, she's young. She's still broke the law and she's still a criminal. Who on this forum would like to be the one to shoot her? Or kill her by any other method?
You can't pick and choose, which is why we have quite lenient (in comparison to other countries) but uniform laws which can be applied to all. Sadly these are taken advantage of at times but if we were to start picking and choosing or making laws stricter then it'd result in far worse crimes against humanity, so I think people should have a long hard think about that before jumping on the 'lets hate the EU/tories/human rights act' bandwagon.