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The Morality of Democracy, Foreign Policy, and the Financial Crisis

09-Nov-09

A form of argument I’ve commonly encountered when debating people on the morality of foreign intervention to promote democracy is the following:
“So, if you think Democracy is so great that it is worth initiating wars over, how can you justify putting pressure on / intervening against democracies when they vote for people you consider ‘bad’? [...]