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Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

Philosophy Bites

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The Traditional View of the Just War

The traditional view is that soldiers on both sides in the war are permitted to fight against one another. The origin and source of this view is in law and convention, he says. "You have to be able to tell people that they're not doing wrong just by fighting"

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