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Applied EthicsAdvanced28 minPlanned

Revisionist Just War Theory

McMahan's argument that liability to attack depends on responsibility for an unjust threat, which denies combatants on the two sides equal standing

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Will defineliability to defensive harmunjust combatantthe independence thesisnarrow proportionalitycontingent pacifism
Assumesjus ad bellumjus in bellomoral equality of combatantsprinciple of discriminationproportionalitypacifism

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