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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (10441)	4/5/2001 12:07:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I do not want to be interfered with, and so I do not support intervention. I understood that all ready X. But I'm sure potential slaves don't want some one to intervene to make them slaves either. I'm not attacking or questioning your belief in moral relativism. I am rather questioning its application in this situation for two reasons. 1 - I'm sure you don't want to be a slave so you apparently shouldn't and maybe don't support slavery. 2 - I don't think you are against many other types of intervention. You haven't talked about opposing the IRSs intervention in your relationship with your employer to make sure taxes are deducted. You probably wouldn't mind the the cops intervening if to stop crime. Your opposition to intervention seems to be an oppposition specifically to one country intervening in another. This would seem to indicate that you believe there is some sort of special status for a countries government that I would probably not support. I am not saying this position is stupid or illogical just that I don't agree with it. Tim

To: epicure who wrote (10441)	4/5/2001 12:32:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.