POLI 362 Chapter : A Few Words on Non-Intervention
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22 Dec 2012
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But there are assuredly cases in which it is allowable to go to war, without having been ourselves attacked, or threatened with attack. First: the rules of ordinary international morality imply reciprocity. Second: nations which are still barbarous have not got beyond the period during which it is likely to be for their benefit that they should be conquered and held in subjection by foreigners. The only moral laws for the relation between a civilized and a barbarous government, are the universal rules of morality between man and man. A civilized government cannot help with a defensive position, one of mere resistance to aggression. By this, mill seems to grant that colonizers assume some moral responsibility over despotic states which are set up by their assistance. Can one country interfere in the regulation of another, in civil war, in their struggles for liberty, etc.