Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, J.J.C. Smart and Hugo Grotius

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

7404	Nations are not obliged to help one-another, but are obliged not to harm one another [Grotius, by Tuck]
	Full Idea: Grotius explored the implications of the idea that nation-states were under no obligation to help one another, but they were obliged not to harm each other.
	From: report of Hugo Grotius (On the Law of War and Peace [1625]) by Richard Tuck - Hobbes Ch.1
	A reaction: This is quite a striking disanalogy between accepted personal morality and political morality. There are signs in recent years of some recognition that other nations should not just sit and watch suffering.