but if we believe in peoples' right to self-determination, it's also hard to conclude that a more-powerful country dictating to a less-powerful country how it should manage its affairs is anything but unjust.
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if we believe in universal human rights, which most countries in the world at least claim to, it's easy to conclude that if people are suffering terrible oppression in one country, there's some moral obligation for more-powerful countries to do something.
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and if we believe that whatever other responsibilities they have, governments' first and primary duty is to their own people, it's ALSO hard to conclude that a long-term occupation of a foreign country, draining resources and generating international ill will, is defensible.
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in conclusion, if we have to have countries, maybe the big thing should be that none of them should be more powerful than any others, so that unilateral action in foreign possible is impossible, and domestic policy most other nations find abhorrent is impracticable.
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