Assertion: humanitarian intervention | /r/HasProperty | justified
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: in certain exceptional cases
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Excusable breach: Humanitarian intervention without a UN mandate is technically illegal under the rules of the UN Charter, but may be morally and politically justified in certain exceptional cases.
text: Thus, humanitarian interventions are justifiable as discharging a (default) duty to protect and defend basic human rights not being respected by the target state.
text: This Washington Post piece points out that "humanitarian intervention," one of the justifications used by the coalition for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, leads to large scale human rights abuses, civilian casualties and sectarian violence.
text: Discussions of whether humanitarian interventions are justified take seriously both the moral pull of extreme humanitarian emergencies that “shock the conscience of mankind” and a moral reticence about using deadly force even to save lives.
text: The objection is sometimes seen in terms of ethical consistency: among all those situations where a humanitarian intervention is morally justifiable, in only some of those cases is an intervention conducted.