I think your argument is circular. Just a couple of decades ago, the Chinese government was euthanizing babies born in violation of the one-child policy. I think Americans look back on that policy with a degree of horror that outstrips how the Chinese view that history—a difference I think is traceable to the influence of evangelical Christianity in the U.S. versus more collectivist cultures in China. Individual human life, and individual freedoms, have always just been worth less in Asia than in the west.
It’s circular because the reasoning goes like this: “rights are universal” because I’m right and asians are wrong; I’m right and asians are wrong because rights are universal.
