Colonialists were not applying liberal values to their colonies. They were using double standards and justifying them with racist arguments. Colonialism started to crumble when the colonized started saying: "so, you say democracy is great, let us vote"!
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I missed this. Yes, exactly.
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I think Roxanne's point is criticizing the idea that values can be imposed and/or serve as a smokescreen for imperialism. A coherent liberal position goes that freedom cannot be imposed.
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It doesn’t seem a coherent position to me. Any person who can say ‘I don’t want to be free’ already lives the way he/she wants. Freedom shouldn’t change anything for that person. What he/she actually says is ‘I don’t want others to be free’.
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True @ holders of all ethics. If you did not believe that an ethical principle or value was superior, there would be no reason for you to hold it in the first place. But then it is also an ethical principle to allow for the possibility that there MAY BE a better one out there.
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I suppose I am touching upon the idea of beliefs and principles being contingent at best.
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now that was poetry.
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