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Cluster bombs and the ethics of warfare

Moral Maze

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Utilitarianism and Virtue Ethics

Jarls: Out of our third and fourth witnesses, neither of them were willing to stick either to utilitarian calculation or to the idea that we should have read lines that it is never justified to cross. The difference seemed to me to be that he would also make a calculation, but the benefits had to be so much better than the harms. It was just a difference of degree rather than a difference of principle. Do you think Jarls? I thought there's an easily, sort of, pick a mixed approach to different sorts of ethical principles.

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