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Neutral?
It sounds like you want a word that connotes benevolence, though western culture (outside of Star Trek) tends to ennoble involvement.
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"Aloof" is the complete opposite, though it connotes anti-meddling, not neutrality. I'd have thought that aloof was more along the lines of hard-hearted, haughty, incurious, and indifferent. - joe (cold-fish) friday
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Yah. "Removed"-- unwilling to get involved through haughtiness, etc. Neither benevolent nor neutral. Exactly.
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According to Plato, perhaps just "just."
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I notice there are a few references to "Monroe Doctrinesque" on Googol.
Also, I don't see an adjectival form, but perhaps you could call someone a cincinnatus (after the roman dictator), but that reference might be too obscure and there is room for the reader to ascribe some other intention to the mention.
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