It is even more important that we criticize democracies that have committed human rights violations than that we criticize dictatorships that have committed more violent human rights offenses  Human rights violations are always inexcusable, but those committed by governments that represent the will of the people are even more reprehensible than those committed by dictators
Further, our criticism is more likely to have an effect on the former than on the latter
Some human rights violations are more reprehensible than other, more violent human rights violations.