>My opinion doesnt sacrifice any "incentive
>for a country to even
>attempt to appear exemplary and
>dimish its crimes" it recognizes
>that each country should be
>accountable to its own crimes
>and actions as opposed to
>judging somebody elses.
>
>K

Good points, but taking care of your own backyard effectively means doing nothing. It means, because France, the USA or Ghana are not perfect, they can't say anything about, for example, Stalinian dictatorship. It means the Holocaust would not have been stopped (because the US had done worse). Actually, this is kind of the case today: look at Pinochet.

Your logic means people oppressed by, say, an honour-killing system should expect no aid or support from anywhere, because nowhere is the female condition perfect. That seems to me a dangerous route to take.

And remember that not only states make judgements on other states. Amnesty International is an example of a non-state doing the same thing.

And how far do you take the "take care of your back-yard" logic? To the individual level, where anyone can say: "That judge has no right over me, he ain't perfect"?

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