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No Moral Case Against the War
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Originally posted by sgtclub
I don't know about Syria or Burma, but there probably isn't one for not doing something in Zimbabwe. Your point? Let me guess. If we can't do the moral thing in all countries we shouldn't try to do it in one?
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I'm going to have to read the piece you linked to if we take this much farther so that I can tell you specifically what I disagree with, but there are a bunch of different reasons why we shouldn't do what you call the moral thing all the time. Some have to do with the limits of our power. If some foreigners are trying to kill other foreigners, often there is little we can do about it. Also, there are questions about what gives us the right to impose our views on others. To me, the latter objections evaporate in the face of genocide. But less so the former. What could we do in Zimbabwe to change things in the long run? And then there are the practical problems. How do we intervene in Zimbabwe if none of its neighbors want us to?
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