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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (10441)4/5/2001 12:32:02 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I do not want to be interfered with, and so I do not support intervention.

So if your neighbor takes you hostage and holds you at gunpoint in his basement, you don't want the police to come interfere?

Not a perfect parallel, of course, because the police are hired to protect victims within the society, and nations aren't hired to protect citizens of other nations. But I think also not a completely inapposite comparison either.

You are suggesting, as I read your posts, that the slaves today being bought and sold in the Sudan are responsible for their enslavement since they haven't risen up to overthrow the government, and that it is wrong of other nations to intervene to free the slaves there.

IMO, this is moral relativism taken to an extreme of immorality.
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