For what is empire but the desire to imprint our values on another people?
"The good in us must stick to our virtues and seek not to impose our values on others," he said.
We need to show that we care about others and protecting their beliefs and values, not about imposing our values on them.
Commentators worry about our interfering with local affairs, as though we were imposing our values on a large population of Libyans who actually like Qaddafi.
Attacks against security personnel and governance institutions, he said, represented attacks "on our values, on our society, on us Canadians, as a free and democratic people who embrace human dignity for all".
What kind of culture are you trying to foster at Acumen? A. At Acumen we try to wear our values on our sleeves.
There was no appeal to Canadian solidarity in the face of an attack on "our country, our values, on our society"; there was no affirmation to "remain vigilant against those at home and abroad who would harm us".
Why should we impose our values on others?Well, some values, such as gender equality and individual autonomy, are worth vigilantly defending, if not exactly imposing.
The administration's supporters say that by opposing the rule, religious employers like EWTN are guilty of trying to coerce our employees and impose our values on them.
"Their position is, on the face of it, in conflict with our commitment and our values on diversity," said Jim Finn, a spokesman for Chase, which had contributed about $200,000 annually to the Boy Scouts until stopping it last month.
