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Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism

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The Problem With Paternalism in the West

If we could stop it happening to them and it was in our power, I think of course we should. The real question is what can we do to make it more likely little stop? Look, you send the Marines, it won't work. What happened in Kenya will happen. It'll turn into a national issue and it'll probably raise the frequency with which it happens. People who recognize that you take them seriously are more likely to see you as a reasonable interlocutor - they're more likely to be persuaded. And also learn from the fact existence in the rest of the world, people who don’t do it who seem to be doing okay,. That the bad things that

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