Yes and no. If there is a rights violation and you find yourself in a position to stop it, there is definitely some duty to do so. But this doesn’t extend to policing all of humanity, and it does not seem to work very well when one culture imposes on another. Instead we leave different countries to handle most things themselves, engaging them in different ways but not coming in to jail people except maybe to stop serious violations like genocide.
Whatever you consider their philosophical status, this doesn’t seem really seem that crazy a way to treat creatures like chimpanzees, elephants, or whales. You might take measures to save populations from being wiped out, but otherwise generally respect them as a sovereign group. That’s the conservationist position anyway, right?
