Could I ask you to elaborate a bit more? While I understand your point (you state it clearly in the last 2 sentences), I'm afraid I don't fully understand some of your analogies and their correlation with your point.. I don't fully grasp the concept you're trying to convey...

    It seems that there was a horrible outcry against the Olympic committee for allowing the Chinese to ever have the games to begin with.  How could this country - which in terms of shear numbers, is the worst human rights violators in the world - be given such a mantle that sort of represents the whole world? 

    Is the committee THAT naive?  Actually, yes probably.

    However, as this may have been a mistake initially, the result has been a blessed opportunity to really put a vital agenda on the table.  An ambivalent world comes together in their distaste for the repression of basic human rights:  the right to believe what you want, the right to say what you want, the right to vote.  Regardless of all other rights, these are most fundamental, and should be inalienable to every human soul.