Moralizations

Many of those who expressed anger at Albania's current UN vote linked this vote to the release of Kosovo from Serbian rule, with decisive US support, accusing Rama's government of “unrecognition.” And this is a moral attitude, unlike the one that requires Albanian governments in general, and this present in general, that in such cases they see our national interests, not the national interests of others. Within this moral attitude, the coveted virtue is Gratitude, that Albanian representatives, both in Tirana and in Pristina, have not lacked to exercise towards the United States, sincerely or falsely, even making pro-American principle of foreign policy. The suspicion that any of these political leaders owe their leadership position exactly to the influence of the US on its country's domestic policy is not enough to disqualified gratitude as a moral response deserving of respect.

On the other hand, the same pro-American preachers, when talking about international intervention in Kosovo in 1999 by NATO, with the US at the top, do not want to attribute NATO or US strategic interests, but see it as a model manifestation of a war. right, or armed intervention in the defence of Kosovo Albanians, against the violence Belgrade was exercising against them and deciding Justice. Here it comes, in this context, another virtue, different: Righteousness. Now, in Aristotle's ethics, this virtue is set up among the four main virtues Prudence, self-control (temples) and Courage; without talking about his role in politics and international relations.

All of those preaching the need to show Gratitude on “America”, because without “America” would not have had Justice for “We like justice, they say, the more we are small and we cannot design strength; but relationships with the strong we want to establish and cultivate on the basis of another virtue of gratitude.

It's a reasoning that mixs morals with pragmatism, but it can't completely hide the logic of the jungle that's beneath it. How much more so that minor virtues such as gratitude lose their value, if not also their sense, cut off from the context of justice and impartiality (Fairness). To produce a topic ad absurdumAnd the strong one himself. We know him. as such to us as this well-known The presence, from which we expect to act justly toward us and toward others, cannot be just with us, nor can respect us as thankful, if he does not ask and expects us to be equal right. The UN assembly would be the ideal ground to test this, as the geometric site of Fairness-it's in international relations; or the place where a little boy can show the big man that he has enough courage (other major virtue) to deserve protection from him.

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