23565 | Our obedience to the king erases any crimes we commit for him [Shakespeare] |
23585 | It is permissible in a just cause to capture a place in neutral territory [Grotius] |
7236 | War gives no right to inflict more destruction than is necessary for victory [Rousseau] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |
23583 | If an aggression is unjust, the constraints on how it is fought are much stricter [Rawls] |
23593 | Jus ad bellum and Jus in bello are independent; unjust wars can be fought in a just way [Walzer] |
23573 | For moral reasons, a just war must be a limited war [Walzer] |
23577 | Napoleon said 'I don't care about the deaths of a million men' [Walzer] |
23600 | Proportionality in fighting can't be judged independently of the justice of each side [McMahan] |
23603 | Can an army start an unjust war, and then fight justly to defend their own civilians? [McMahan] |
23611 | Soldiers cannot freely fight in unjust wars, just because they behave well when fighting [McMahan] |
23612 | The law of war differs from criminal law; attacking just combatants is immoral, but legal [McMahan] |
23617 | If the unjust combatants are morally excused they are innocent, so how can they be killed? [McMahan] |
20616 | During wars: proportional force, fair targets, fair weapons, safe prisoners, no reprisals [Tuckness/Wolf] |