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Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

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The Importance of Innocence

Under the conventional established way of discussing this issue, both sides they can fight and there's nothing immoral about that. But as a matter of morality it's just false. It's not true that the people who have invaded another country without any justification are not doing anything wrong. And in particular when they are killing people on the other side who are simply engaged in justifiably defending themselves against wrongful attack,. That's quite an emotive way of putting it. To say they're an innocent person shooting at me, that doesn't seem quite right to me.

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