Killing in War McMahan Jeff Rutgers University New Jersey
Killing in War McMahan Jeff Rutgers University New Jersey Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill…
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Killing in War McMahan Jeff Rutgers University New Jersey
Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war?
McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views.