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And who would you give the aid to?


That’s why you don’t give them horses, which are easily used as weapons. Provide a means to eliminate the incentive structure that keeps humans as draft animals and livestock by offering a more efficient and effective alternative.

There is no way to directly fix an unjust society from the outside without becoming at least as unjust as what you are trying to fix. So you do your best to distribute the resource, but you know it will initially be controlled by the ones holding the monopoly of force.

The hope that one day there will be an improvement in justice is sufficient to not withhold the possibility.


You are working from an incorrect assumption about your choices.

* Doing nothing is unjust.

* Providing material aid and luxuries to the slave holders/cannibals is unjust.

* Using your presumably superior force to stop murder is not unjust.


It gets murky fast when the culture itself is the problem and not just some bad actors. When you use coercive force to fight an ideology or a culture, and the ideology or culture makes up the majority of the demographic, you end up with very messy situations that often create more suffering than you were trying to alleviate.




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