Question: Can there ever be a just war?
Just War Theory says "Yes"
And I agree with this!
Just War Theory seeks to reconcile the fact that the taking of human life is not morally permissible with the fact that states have a duty to protect their citizens and other innocents, and to uphold justice and that sometimes this can only be done using violence - it shows us how it can be morally permissible to use force and violence if the aim is to protect innocent lives and uphold morality.
Here are two links:
There is Jus ad Bellum - the conditions under which the use of military violence is justified
And there is Jus in Bello - how to conduct a war ethically, once it has started.
I believe that the Allied war effort during World War II met the Jus ad Bellum criteria and also the Jus in Bello criteria - and that the AXIS war effort did not. Far from it.
World War II was essentially a war of annihilation waged by the civilised world against a great evil which sought to dominate all other powers and commit genocide - the side who lost the fight would be annihilated
And thankfully, NAZI Germany and its allies was destroyed
I think this destruction was not only morally permissible but a moral duty
So, in answer to the question: Yes. The Allied war-effort during World War II was.
Do you agree? Or disagree?
Just War Theory says "Yes"
And I agree with this!
Just War Theory seeks to reconcile the fact that the taking of human life is not morally permissible with the fact that states have a duty to protect their citizens and other innocents, and to uphold justice and that sometimes this can only be done using violence - it shows us how it can be morally permissible to use force and violence if the aim is to protect innocent lives and uphold morality.
Here are two links:
There is Jus ad Bellum - the conditions under which the use of military violence is justified
And there is Jus in Bello - how to conduct a war ethically, once it has started.
I believe that the Allied war effort during World War II met the Jus ad Bellum criteria and also the Jus in Bello criteria - and that the AXIS war effort did not. Far from it.
World War II was essentially a war of annihilation waged by the civilised world against a great evil which sought to dominate all other powers and commit genocide - the side who lost the fight would be annihilated
And thankfully, NAZI Germany and its allies was destroyed
I think this destruction was not only morally permissible but a moral duty
So, in answer to the question: Yes. The Allied war-effort during World War II was.
Do you agree? Or disagree?