Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.
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