PP223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Just War Theory, Principle Of Double Effect, Categorical Imperative
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9/11) & should be publicly declared: last resort all third-party efforts have failed. No possibility to solve the issue any other way: reasonable chance for success success is weighed differently, proportionality of benefit to evil- proportionate to the injustice. This allows him to differentiate between actions that might be terrifying, but don"t count as terrorism. The use or attempted use of terror as a means of coercion. Deliberately causing fear and suffering for political purposes by the use of violence against non-combatants. The deliberate use of violence, or threat of its use, against innocent people, with the aim of intimidating them, or other people, into a course of action they otherwise would not take. Primoratz stresses the distinction between primary and secondary targets. This allows him to differentiate between actions that might be terrifying, but don"t count as terrorism. taking hostages during a bank robbery.
