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Date: 2009-02-27 04:03 pm (UTC)It's the forcefulness of the must that worries me.
I know what triggered this, so this may have shaped my answers.
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:06 pm (UTC)IMO, the closer to home something is, the more confident we can be that our judgements that it is wrong and that we know what to do to fix it are correct, and the further away it is, the more likely those judgements are to be misguided in some way. I also believe in the right of other countries to be sovereign in their own territory and not be policed by the country that happens to be the most powerful.
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:33 pm (UTC)I also believe in the right of other countries to be sovereign in their own territory and not be policed by the country that happens to be the most powerful.
So genocide is fine, so long as it's legal in the country in which it occurs?
(Yes, that's an extreme example, but your statement seemed equally extreme.)
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:39 pm (UTC)If someone else's child hits his little sister, that's wrong of him, but it would also be wrong of me (a stranger not in loco parentis) to punish him.
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:45 pm (UTC)And _some_ recent world history has shown we make things worse. I believe that a lot of the work in the Balkans was seen as a good thing, where genocide was prevented.
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:40 pm (UTC)Given the options presented to Parliament: War in Iraq. Do nothing for several months. Which way do you want your MP to vote?
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Date: 2009-02-27 08:01 pm (UTC)Under Nazi law, being Jewish was essentially illegal. So was being homosexual.
After the war, the former was understood as genocide, but the latter wasn't, because - as I understand it - pre- and post- Nazi penal codes still defined homosexuality as illegal.
On this, I've often wondered what someone who was both Jewish and gay would say and where they would fit.
More generally, it's about different understandings - what is murder, rape, psychopathy etc, and are they universals?
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:12 pm (UTC)bad poll
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:31 pm (UTC)Bad comment.
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Date: 2009-02-27 05:53 pm (UTC)If there's a serial killer in Montreal, what the hell am I supposed to do? Buy a train ticket and hope that they are still in Montreal when I get there, eh? I'll just have wasted my money.
A serial killer in the States or in Switzerland is a matter for the local constabulary.
This is clearly not about Iraq, as you are using a verb in the present tense, whereas Saddam's excesses happenned fifteen years before 2003.
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Date: 2009-02-28 11:41 am (UTC)I answered something must be done to all except the last one regarding the different continents. My logic is going to be a little flawed here. First off, I'm in Australia, and the next country over is probably New Zealand, a country which would probably really really need some help in such a situation, and we'd really be obliged. The next continent over, is Asia, which is quite a different story. The thing is, there are rules between different continents - and countries if you look further out - which may suggest that they don't want our help. In which case, interference will just make things worse.
Hell, check out the war on terror between the almighty US and terror-ridden Afghanistan. Textbook.
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Date: 2009-03-01 11:27 am (UTC)Glad to hear it. Means you're dealing with the world in a nuanced fashion :->
may suggest that they don't want our help
Who? The torturers or the people being tortured?
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Date: 2009-03-03 06:24 pm (UTC)