PSC 2440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Consequentialism
26 Mar 2020
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A few days before the us went in, a suicide bomber had died, a military man, captain. Johnson, a van hurtled toward the checkpoint, johnson told them to shoot toward the radiator to stop the vehicle. If a war is unjust, every action is unjust - on the combatants or non-combatants. The traditionalist interpretation - you can separate the two and have a just war and unjust conduct or vice versa. Different interpretations of the iraqi case study. No, we are all members of the human family. This approach you would say johnson shouldn"t shoot b/c it"s an unjust war and an unjust action. Should have treated the approaching car as if they had american citizens in it. Minimally at least one warning shot or two. These people were outside your identity group. Win the hearts and mind of the populists kinda like cosmopolitan. But the terrorists could circumvent that protocol.
