[tootie]

It worked for South Korea and Taiwan. They were both ruled by strongmen on the fence between dictatorship and autoritarian democracy. Park Chung-hee industrialized S Korea in 20 years by ruling with a rubber-stamp parliament and a disregard for human rights. The country emerged stronger and gave way to a true democracy with 20 years of his death.

[emodendroket]

The trouble is that that doesn't prove that similar increases in prosperity could not have occurred without widespread human rights abuses.

[xbmcuser]

   USA is built on human Rights abuses first of native Americans then African Americans today you might talk about how free speech got USa where it is. But that is not true is it if you look at your history same is for most of the western world.
   Today US consumerism is built on human rights abuses of people in other countries but free speech whatever. Forget people of other countries many of your local goverments and corporations are being run on human rights abuses of people of color and Hispanics. Either by incarceration or being used almost like slave labor in your large farms.