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Objections might, of course, be made to them as unlikely to produce their hoped-for effect, or as repugnant to our feelings of humanity or honour.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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Holland discusses the potential objections to military actions based on humanitarian grounds.
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To localise hostile pressure as far as possible, and to give to it such a character as shall restrict its incidence to the peccant State, is surely in the interest of the general good.
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