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How do epistemic paradigms affect ethical paradigms then ? Is it because of liberal approach to science, that we get closer and closer to the "Truth" by discussing with each other, that Obama chose to enter into dialogue with Islam (as in Cairo in 2009) instead of invading country after country ?

" When a state fights its political enemy in the name of humanity it is not a war for the sake of humanity, but a war wherein a particular state seeks to usurp a universal concept against its military opponents. (…) The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism."

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political