The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, April 24, 2015

The "Just War" view of collateral damage

His position is morally orthodox.

But the orthodoxy was devised for wars supposedly purely defensive and fought, as it were, against threats at least in the same league as "existential" ones, much as the justifications for "enhanced interrogation techniques" offered in the aftermath of 9/11, Krauthammer's and Dershowitz's apart, tended to rely on scenarios involving radiological, if not nuclear, terrorism.

And that this is not.

And, anyway, the methods of the so-called "war on terror" may contaminate ordinary law enforcement.

Do we want cops thinking this way?

Do cops think this way?

End the moaning about the ‘morality’ of US drone strikes

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