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To: Lane3 who wrote (10680)	4/6/2001 7:30:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

But what if the Europeans don't. Or the Pakistanis? Or whoever. This goes back to the many discussions here about absolute vs. relative morality. The principle is one of not imposing our standards and values and practices on other countries in exchange for them not imposing theirs on us. Not a bad principle but it is not the highest principle IMO. The idea would not be my "prime directive" because I have other principles that I hold as important and because I don't give nations any special moral status. As a principle or moral idea I would not make them immune to impositions of standards or values or practices any more then individuals are immune. As a practical matter countries can agree not to interfere with each other, and more often then not the results of interference are not good, but if I had the power to bloodlessly eliminate slavery and I was sure that there would be no massive negative consequences from doing so then I would do it. Of course in reality I have neither the power nor the certainty. Tim