On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:54:22 +0000, Jose wrote:

As I wrote above, human rights cannot be imposed. The very idea is
silly (how does one "impose" "free choice"?).

One does so by forcibly removing the obstacles to free choice.

That's not really "imposing". But I'm not sure what word does apply.

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Whether this is morally justified, or morally reprehensible, is the
question, and like many such, it is a tangle of intersecting rights.

We'd not find it acceptable should the police do nothing about a hostage
situation in our home town, eh? Of course, we've hired the police - in
that example - as a collective.

- Andrew