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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (5789)2/14/2001 8:20:02 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
After your post she did post that she opposed Chinese rights abuses. But this is totally contradictary to what she has posted in the past, that whatever a society accepts is moral and right.

I see no contradiction at all. X said that the actions of the Chinese government were not acceptable to her, under her own moral criteria. That does not mean that she is claiming that her personal moral criteria are in any way absolute. She also did not claim any right to impose her views on the Chinese, which is of course a moot point since neither she nor anyone else has the capacity to impose another set of moral values on the Chinese.

It seems axiomatic that whatever a society accepts as moral and right is moral and right to them. They make it so by their acceptance. That does not mean that those actions will be considered right and moral by anybody else. This, of course, raises a common question: how drastic does the difference between our neighbor's moral code and our own have to be to justify forcible intervention in our neighbor's affairs?

The theory of self-determination, of course, holds that intervention is never justified. In practice, we often decide that it is justified, though that decision generally has more to do with capacity and self-interest than it does with morality.
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