PLS 160 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pacifism, Nonviolence, Preemptive War
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Realism: ethics don"t matter, in extreme form, moral considerations have no place, modern realists say a war is just if it brings about just results (justice in foreign affairs depends on the aims of the government rather than on particular policy tools employed to achieve them, war is justifiable if undertaken to serve the national interest, pessimistic view of international society. Pacifism: non violence, the end never justifies the means, favors war without weapons , war can never be justified, act disobediently towards government, but not using weapons, breaking the law towards a higher moral purpose. Jus in bello: discrimination: combatants respect the immunity of non combatants, proportionality met when legitimate aims sought by a state resorting to war outweigh that harm that will result from the prosecution of war, proportionality expected to guide military action once states are at war.
