It's none of Europe's business whether we smack our children
On a list of words and phrases that have mutated beyond all meaning in recent years, “human rights” must come near the top. Originating out of various strands of thinking which emerged from antiquity, Christianity and the Anglo-American politics of the 17th and 18th century, it has come to mean almost the opposite – total state control over people’s lives.
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