California who makes circuitry for Cruise Missiles? What about the person in China who makes components and tools and harvests the raw materials for the guy in California who makes the circuitry for cruise missiles? If you think all of the workers in the above question are non-combatants and shouldn't be targeted, what do you then think about blockades? Are you free to prevent other nations from supplying your enemy with war materials? What if there are food supplies along with the shipment of war materials? What if there are only food supplies - can you blockade food supplies from your enemy? Is keeping food from enemy civilians justified if you are also keeping it from their army? If such as a blockade that hurts all enemies (civilians and army) indiscriminately is legitimate, why not a bombing that blows up a factory and kills hundreds or thousands of civilians in the process like the Tokyo firebombing or the A-bomb? How can you explain the warmongering of Christian Europe? Up through WWII, nations that identified almost wholly as "Christian" fought each other to the death. If we had a thousand years of utter evil and malice at the hands of Christian states (in war, inquisitions, tortures and public executions, etc) how are we to believe that a theory of just war is reasonable? We've seen the Christian state who adheres to just war in action and it's been found wanting. How can you maintain reasonable success in Just War if you are so constrained by moral limitations? Does this qualification apply to the individual? What about the individual soldier or the unit in battle? What does that do to notions of honor and sacrifice? If you were a soldier, what would be your threshold for determining whether you could kill someone justly? Or would you just follow commands and kill anyone who your government determined was the enemy? Questions from the : What would an American foreign policy determined by just war principles look like? What would a just war Pentagon look like? What kind of virtues would the people of America have to have to sustain a just war foreign policy and Pentagon? What kind of training do in the military have to undergo in order to be willing to take casualties rather than conduct the war unjustly? How would those with the patience necessary to insure that a war be a last resort be elected to office?
California who makes circuitry for Cruise Missiles? What about the person in China who makes components and tools and harvests the raw materials for the guy in California who makes the circuitry for cruise missiles? If you think all of the workers in the above question are non-combatants and shouldn't be targeted, what do you then think about blockades? Are you free to prevent other nations from supplying your enemy with war materials? What if there are food supplies along with the shipment of war materials? What if there are only food supplies - can you blockade food supplies from your enemy? Is keeping food from enemy civilians justified if you are also keeping it from their army? If such as a blockade that hurts all enemies (civilians and army) indiscriminately is legitimate, why not a bombing that blows up a factory and kills hundreds or thousands of civilians in the process like the Tokyo firebombing or the A-bomb? How can you explain the warmongering of Christian Europe? Up through WWII, nations that identified almost wholly as "Christian" fought each other to the death. If we had a thousand years of utter evil and malice at the hands of Christian states (in war, inquisitions, tortures and public executions, etc) how are we to believe that a theory of just war is reasonable? We've seen the Christian state who adheres to just war in action and it's been found wanting. How can you maintain reasonable success in Just War if you are so constrained by moral limitations? Does this qualification apply to the individual? What about the individual soldier or the unit in battle? What does that do to notions of honor and sacrifice? If you were a soldier, what would be your threshold for determining whether you could kill someone justly? Or would you just follow commands and kill anyone who your government determined was the enemy? Questions from the : What would an American foreign policy determined by just war principles look like? What would a just war Pentagon look like? What kind of virtues would the people of America have to have to sustain a just war foreign policy and Pentagon? What kind of training do in the military have to undergo in order to be willing to take casualties rather than conduct the war unjustly? How would those with the patience necessary to insure that a war be a last resort be elected to office?
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