PHIL 2429 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jus Ad Bellum, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Zandar

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2429
• Professor: Davidovic Jovana

Document Summary

Can have both principal and empirical reasons. Pur - (moral) principle of unnecessary risk. Wrong to command someone to take more risk than necessary if you can achieve same good. Op - if it is possible to use uavs in place of iavs without losing capability, a military has an ethical obligation to do so. Antecedent is really important - if it is possible to use uavs in place of iavs without losing capability . Only holds when you have met jus ad bellum and jus in bello. Puwsr - principle of unnecessary waste of scarce resources. Pur is a stronger claim, so strawser focuses on it. The use of uavs will lead us to the use of iaws (independent autonomous weapons systems) The use of uavs does not lead to iaws. Objection 2: limitations on meeting jus in bello conditions. For example, they have a decreased ability to discriminate combatants from noncombatants.