Sparing civilians

Sparing civilians

Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers -- Necessity -- Opportunistic and eliminative killing -- Risky killing -- Vulnerability and defenselessness -- Combatant non-immunity -- Epilogue.

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1. Verfasser: Lazar, Seth (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2015
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Civilians in war > Combatants and noncombatants (International law) > Civilian war casualties > War victims > Military history, Modern > Moral and ethical aspects > Ethik > Bewaffneter Konflikt > Zivilbevölkerung > Soldat
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Zusammenfassung:Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers -- Necessity -- Opportunistic and eliminative killing -- Risky killing -- Vulnerability and defenselessness -- Combatant non-immunity -- Epilogue.
Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers. If any moral principle commands near universal assent, this one does. It is written into every major historical and religious tradition that has addressed armed conflict. It is uncompromisingly inscribed in international law. It underpins and informs public discussion of conflict-we always ask first how many civilians died? And it guides political practice, at least in liberal democracies, both in how we fight our wars and in which wars we fight. Few moral principles have been more widely and more viscerally affirmed than this one. And yet, in recent years it has faced a rising tide of dissent. Political and military leaders seeking to slip the constraints of the laws of war have cavilled and qualified. Their complaints have been unwittingly aided by philosophers who, rebuilding just war theory from its foundations, have concluded that this principle is at best a useful fiction. Sparing Civilians aims to turn this tide, and to vindicate international law, and the ruptured consensus. In doing so, Seth Lazar develops new insights into the morality of harm, relevant to everyone interested in normative and applied ethics
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:158 S.
ISBN:9780198712985
978-0-19-871298-5