The document discusses the limits of a state's actions in self-interest through three prompts: 1) Whether a government is solely responsible for its own people's benefit and should do whatever necessary to increase state interests. 2) The message of a Puck cartoon regarding this issue. 3) The impact of British interaction with China, including the Opium Wars, and modern interpretations of these events. Students are asked to debate how much responsibility governments have to act in their state's self-interest.