Talk:Plagiarism/@comment-92.41.119.115-20110304040743/@comment-190.78.89.250-20110304050723

The sorry trap of liberal good intentions, and so-called "principle" as the absolute determinant... which curiously ommits the far from neutral authorship of 'the rules', or the fact that more people have died in Africa directly as a result of the West's policies than any local ruler branded a dictator could dream of. But, since these other millions of deaths can be naturalized as somehow external to readily identifyable human agents, or to the 'inevitable' workings of markets, they somehow seem to count for less. How convenient "principle" then becomes: it's either white or it's black, whatever actual messy reality tells us.