PHIL 2429 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jus Ad Bellum, J. Walter Thompson, Humanitarian Intervention
2 Apr 2019
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Absolute pacifism - there is something intrinsically wrong with war. Conditional pacifism - war is only permissible if no one gets killed. Contingent pacifism (embraces just war theory) - have to meet all of the jwt conditions, can never meet the proportionality condition in jus ad bellum. Stronger restriction on killing innocents (proportionality condition - jus ad bellum) May"s argument: killing is worse than letting someone die. If you believe that killing one person is worse than letting 100 people die, then 2. you believe that you shouldn"t impose a 1% risk of harm to a person. I. e. driving is wrong - this is silly! Bazargan rejects this inference by saying that the relationship is not linear. You can embrace his argument, but not to the extent to which he argues. Combatants fail to satisfy basis for killing (in bello) Most wars are about political rights vs. killing, and this will never justify killing.
