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The Moral Illegitimacy of War
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2017-06-01 03:00
The same logic that must be used to conclude that murder is immoral also proves that war is immoral. The same ethics used by civilization to deal with criminality must also be applied to war. Finally, the natural rights premises of Libertarianism offer a procedural paradigm for ethical and cooperative international action even in the absence of world government.
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