This is a good comment, compared to the others in this thread. However this line > There is merely the objective good again falls into the trap of Kantian eth

This is a good comment, compared to the others in this thread. However this line > There is merely the objective good again falls into the trap of Kantian ethics. You might believe that there is an objective morality, but others may not [0]. It is a long held debate over whether there is objective versus subjective morality, with good (and poor) arguments on both sides. The utilitarian might say there is no such "evil as such and unjustifiabil[ity] as such" because they could find many scenarios where it is justified, as in the example above of causing an entire civilization to avoid harm were a child to be sacrificed. Let me also state that I am not a staunch utilitarian, yet nor I am I a Kantian, I (as likely most of us) am somewhere in between. I will agree with you on the "condemnations of the West" points you made though, as I think it's really a strictly Western and perhaps even American view that sees Westerners as being the worst perpetrators, over and above all other civilizations on the plant. No, being humans, any civilization has committed atrocities. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/