istic compassion is only for select people. J. Krishnamurti speaks of compassion being indivisible, for when compassion is fragmented it is no longer "compassion". Krishnamurti reasons that it is impossible to be compassionate for some and not for others for this in itself violates the integrity altruism in the essence of compassion.So clearly political parties have their own version of altruism, and thus dangerous precedents must be guarded against being set. Allowing nations to intervene is simply giving them a "Carte blanc" to do whatever they wish with regards to promoting self interest at the expense of sovereign nations. This is something that must be determined early on in time by the international community to prevent the stronger nations from setting unethical standards of dealings with foreign affairs. Should such a standard become accepted by the world community there runs the risk of having the seemingly benevolent nations replace a violent tyranny with a political tyranny. How moral could these implications be? For all of time man has been willing to fight for freedom and sacrifice lives for freedom. This implies that freedom from oppression is worth fighting for but more importantly it is worth dying for. In this reasoning it makes sense that is better to die than to be restricted of liberty. It follows then that intervention takes away ones right to fight, sacrifice and ultimately die for the liberty of ones people. Moreover, intervention does this at the potential and likely cost of loosing ones liberty in any case.Mahatma Gandhi told the Indian people in the 1940s that if they wanted independence that they needed to become worthy of it first, and at that point and only at that point would the oppressor be unable to withhold the oppressed any further. The case of India is the only case of such magnitude that such successful non-violence has ever been used to free a nation. This lends credit to the altruistic ...
