France does away with jury trials for rape cases.
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What you don't seem to get about your worldview is that when your human rights are taken away, the fact you supported them doesn't earn you any browny points. When your rights are taken away, you'll say "hey give them back, I supported human rights so you can't take them away!" And the people who take your rights away will laugh and say they don't care. You tell me I shouldn't complain but you have the right to complain because you supported human rights. That's cool but guess what? I can still complain when my rights are taken way whether I supported them or not and I will. What difference will it make? None. No one who takes your rights away will go, hmmm you have a right to complain, let me give them back.
So in the end, your support for human rights is irrelevant in helping you keep your own human rights; however, in the meantime your support for human rights is being used against you. You can't segregate women and men in the school system because of "human rights", you can't deport non-whites from your country because human rights. You can't ban LGBTQ+ events, and it's promotion because mah human rights. Your enemies throw the concept of human rights in your face to stop you from taking action against your enemies. And when the time comes that your enemies trample on your human rights, your enemies will give you 0 credit for supporting human rights.
What good then are human rights? They are useless. They are nothing but a weakness that your enemies use against you.
Let me give you an example. You are a Russian citizen. You voted for the opposition party and don't support the war in Ukraine. You believe strongly in human rights.
Canada decides to seize your assets and gives them to Ukraine. This is a huge violation of your human rights. You cry as loud as you can "THIS IS A VIOLATION OF MY HUMAN RIGHTS" but nothing happens. Your assets are seized by a power that decided your human rights didn't matter. The end. What now?
https://www.rt.com/news/569794-sanctions-and-seizure-of-russian-property/
Meanwhile, you spend the better part of your life arguing against the Russian government's stance on LGBTQ+ because it violated human rights. Did you get any browny points for that? No. So again, what good are human rights when people with power can choose to take them away from you at any time and your previous support of human rights is irrelevant on whether or not those rights get taken away?
What you should do instead is simply believe in whatever you believe is right and wrong. The end. If you truly believe all "human rights" are right then go ahead and believe that. But you aren't anymore holier than thou simply because you believe in human rights compared to someone who doesn't believe in human rights. Human rights aren't anything special. They are just a set of values/beliefs that large groups of power have agreed to (for now), that's it.