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Originally posted by Spanky
If a government is democratically elected we have no right to go in. Although there may be an exception to this if the Democratically elected government starts committing genocide. But I don't know. That would definitely be a tough call. If the government of Romania decided to exterminate all the hungarians in the country, or all the jews in its country, should we step in? I think that would be a tough call for anyone on this board.
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Of all of the things you have said on this Board, this is loopier than most. I'm not much aof a moral relativist, and your hypo is not, in the abstract, a tough call for me at all.
If you believe in a UMC and you're not willing to countenance mass slaughter, you step in to stop it where and when you CAN regardless of whether that slaughter represents the will of the majority in that region/country.
One of the key tricks, though, is to recognize the limits of your power, and recognize when you're likely to only fuck things up and make it worse. [I think this last point is where you and I diverge significantly.]
S_A_M
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