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Originally Posted by SGK
True enough and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that trade sanctions don't deter dictatorships and only hurt the people. I still struggle with accepting that it is morally correct to trade with a country which we accept, officially, tortures its people.
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Look at it this way. How can it be wrong to do something that harms no one and benefits everyone? So what if some of those benefited don't deserve it? And, from the other side, how can it be right to
prevent people from making trades that harm no one and benefit others? After all, if you as an individual disapprove of trade with a particular person, firm or country, the remedy is in your own hands - just don't buy those goods.