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ETHICS AND POLITICS: THE MODERN!
formed for a particular purpose in its
members of other such issf>ri>tio
dealings with the
i 'nti
If, in fact, the principle of morality be recognized as a
guiding principle in the relations of one individual with
another, there is no reason why it should suddenly cease
to be acknowledged as a guiding principle in the relations
of a number or group of individuals with members of
another group. But if this is granted, it becomes difficult
to see why it is any harder for the State "to commit theft
or murder in the sense in which these are moral offences"
than it
same*
is for a church or a trading company to do the
The duties which a State has to its members are no
doubt different from those which an individual has to
other individuals; it may, indeed, be urged that the State,
not being a person, 1 cannot properly be said to have duties
at all When men talk of the State's duties, what they mean
are the duties which lie upon those who compose the