Thread: Irreconcilable differences between cultures

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Large-scale intervention should only be justified when approved by a large, encompassing organization of nations (like the UN). No single country has the right to be world cop and meddle in another independent territory's internal affairs.

If one country doesn't have the right to be world cop and meddle in another country then why is it acceptable that multiple countries do this? In the conversion from one to many is there some mystical act? Does it only become legitimate when there is more then one? What confers this legitimacy besides arbitrary whim?