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You are working from an incorrect assumption about your choices.

* Doing nothing is unjust.

* Providing material aid and luxuries to the slave holders/cannibals is unjust.

* Using your presumably superior force to stop murder is not unjust.

It gets murky fast when the culture itself is the problem and not just some bad actors. When you use coercive force to fight an ideology or a culture, and the ideology or culture makes up the majority of the demographic, you end up with very messy situations that often create more suffering than you were trying to alleviate.

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