(December 5, 2021 at 9:09 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Does America, or even any other nation, really have a moral impetus to change anything? Why should we? When lions kill and eat gazelle, do the lions then apologize to the remaining gazelle? Of course not, because it's simply a part of "lion nature" to eat gazelle. Human nature is amoral and has much less to do with empathy than most people would like to believe.
NO.
Neither are foreign policies or behaviour between nations usually (if ever) based on morality.
Congratulations, you're a pragmatist. As humans tend to be in extremis
You may not have read this; In 1972, the chartered flight Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes. The survivors ate parts of some of the dead bodies to survive while waiting to be rescued.
Pope Paul V1 declared that the survivors had committed no sin.
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 - Wikipedia
