I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.
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I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
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