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Originally Posted by HarryT
On the contrary, such views formed the entire moral justification for European and American 19th century colonialism (ie subjugation of inferior races), which were supported by an awful lot of people of conscience.
Take a look, for example, at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (an extremely reputable scholarly source) article on colonialism:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/
From that article, the attitude of John Stuart Mill, one of the leading lights of the Enlightenment, and most assuredly a man of conscience:
Ie “the ends justify the means”. |
Uplift. Social engineering ala Gatlin.
They were sharing the "benefits" of democratic capitalism and raising the savages into Civilization. It was a "noblese oblige" kind of thing.
Not really all that different from what western NGOs do today, but a wee bit more "forceful".
