Why You Shouldn't Kill a Bunch of Babies

In the modern world, it is a myth to say that you can fight a defensive war because you wind normally deliberately go and kill a bunch of people. If you try this defence when yo, when you're accused of murder, of killing some babies, you will not get away with it even if you have iron clad proof. So that's the first premise. A second premise is a moral one. This one says that before you go and murder or manslaughter innocent people, you ought to know with confidence that the benefits substantially exceed the costs. Third premise just says that the long run benefits of war are actually highly uncertain. How do we know this? Well, there's a number of ways