When your leaders are philosopher-kings, this is the kind of healthcare system the citizens enjoy. Before the pandemic, El Salvador had 26 ventilators across the country, but now it has over 1,200.
The same pandemic exposed the structural and systemic lapses in Ghana’s healthcare system. My question is: where have we gotten to with our pledge to strengthen it in preparation for better health outcomes, especially during emergencies?
Are you fr?
Clout is not a qualification tho
People put in so much resources to educate society about the myths surrounding menstruation and you as a woman tweets this?
Of course you can’t defend your selective moralism with “human rights” and show consistency in promoting them, so you’d dodge calls to call out actual violations of human rights happening across the globe.
You absolutely have the right to use “logical fallacy” when you haven’t proven a single fallacious argument I’ve made.
Interesting! How on earth did we reach a point where a sovereign country gets lectured that its entire economy will collapse just for passing a bill that reflects the values, culture, and beliefs of its own people?
Sovereignty isn’t some outdated idea. Every nation-state has a damn right to decide its own laws without foreign overlords holding the purse strings like a whip.
Some countries out there are busy slaughtering innocent civilians in endless, senseless wars, bombing cities and displacing millions, yet where’s the screaming outrage from the World Bank, the IMF, and all these self-righteous investors? Crickets! No aid cuts, no investment boycotts, no economic Armageddon threats.
If people truly cared about “human rights,” they wouldn’t twist the term into a shield for promoting mental illnesses and ideological fads.
Real human rights would mean standing up to blood-thirsty politicians who start wars for power and profit, and hold them accountable instead of selectively bullying African nations over family and morality issues.
Ghana and the rest of Africa should tell these hypocrites: Our values are not for sale. Pass the bill, protect our children and culture, and let’s build real self-reliance so no one can ever dangle aid as blackmail again. Enough of this neocolonial nonsense!
@lanth_fan Well obviously they recognized it as a useful tool to undermine the last government and win power
But I think he knows if they actually pass it the economy is finished like done
So they will keep dragging their feet to save face I guess
That’s the way I see it
@CrazyPr0fessor What gibberish! What do you want to say, actually? Look, I don’t have time for this needless back-and-forth. Go ahead and defend whatever feels right for you.
@Daakye_asem1@kojoblaq7@0panaa_1 I see a showcase of the country’s import-export sector, which underpins the economy, with national football. What do you think?
There’s no whataboutism here. Logical fallacies are rather obvious in your replies as your posts simply highlight selective outrage and inconsistent “standards,” not “two wrongs make a right.”
Framing my point as whataboutism is weak. I didn’t point to Western wars and abuses as an “excuse” for anybody to allegedly violate human rights (per UN definitions). That’s a strawman. My quote never claimed “Ghana should do bad things too ‘cause others do.”
I’ll restate my arguments. They are:
1. Sovereign nations have the right to set laws that reflect their culture/values without economic blackmail.
2. If “human rights” is the true concern, critics like you should apply it consistently and loudly condemn civilian killings in wars, resource exploitation, etc., with the same fervor (or more) as you target the bill on family/sexual matters.
3. Selective pressure in the form of aid/investment threats over this issue, but crickets on bigger-scale violence is basically neocolonial control or ideological enforcement, not universal principles.
My quote was a valid tu quoque that critiqued the hypocrisy and double standards, not a deflection excusing anything.
If you want to defend “human rights,” then be consistent. Global human rights police must police everyone evenly.
@_nursing_guy This is whataboutism - a logical fallacy that you should probably look up.
The fact that Western Governments are starting wars and violating human rights (I agree with this, and I criticize them too on it)
That is not an excuse for Ghana to violate Human Rights as well
I’ll credit you for laying out the country’s financial risks and investor dependence. But the real point is about the deeper fallacy in your response, which is selective moralism.
The UN is a political body, not an absolute moral authority. Many nations, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Islamic world, consistently reject expansive Western interpretations of “sexual orientation/gender identity” so-called “rights”.
The bill reflects the country’s own cultural values and sovereignty, even if it carries short-term economic costs that could be offset by prudent policies.
If you were consistent, you would equally condemn far larger-scale actual violations abroad, not just target poorer countries on cultural issues while you ignore wars and exploitation that don’t fit the your narrative.
Ridiculous. What do Ghanaian family values, culture, and beliefs have to do with Islam? What does this even mean?
The constitution protects religious freedom. Tell me about the part of the constitution that protects “sexual orientation” or “homosexuality” rights.
If the bill violates any constitutional provision, let the Supreme Court strike it down. Then the people will amend the constitution to reflect their values through their representatives in Parliament.
As a Computer Scientist armed with a Ph.D., is it your quintessential technocratic reduction that Parliament should shelve questions of cultural continuity and moral order because gradient descent and robotics represent a higher calling?
I wonder if you’ve read any Burke or Scruton, or even basic development sociology, before declaring that shared values around family and identity are mere distractions from “real” progress.
Your replies only compound the error. You waive away every substantive objection as distraction tactics. That only reveals a telling incuriosity toward the very social substrate that makes innovation possible in the first place.
Galamsey is indeed a crisis, yet pretending a nation can outsource its civilizational priorities to LLMs while ignoring what its people actually value isn’t pragmatism, is it? I know the familiar hubris of the laptop class projecting its own narrow priors onto a complex society.
Societies aren’t debuggable codebases. Touch some non-digital grass, Doctor.
Imagine a serious country discussing this, instead of how we can innovate in AI & robotics, create jobs, end Galamsey, etc🤦🏽♂️
WTF is wrong with us?