> JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> Anyhow, I don't think that anyone here seriously
> intends to argue that the
> killing of combatants is an objective moral evil.
> Indeed, the concept of
> a "just war" requires that the killing of
> combatants, in at least some
> circumstances, not be evil at all - but in fact be
> "just."
There is no _just_ war. Only war to prevent worse
evil from occurring, a "necessary war." It is a
lesser evil to avert the greater.
> As for the killing of non-combatants, participants
> in a "just war" are not
> supposed to intend to kill combatants. Such
> killing is unavoidable, of
> course, but that's life. Nevertheless, there is no
> intent to *murder* there.
<biting tongue hard>
Well, for those innocent non-combatants killed, that's
*not* life, that's _death_. For those not killed,
there's mutilation, loss of home, loss of loved
ones...
> In reality, all the Catholic Church is saying here
> is the simple moral
> precept that "the ends do not justify the means."
Please explain, then, how any war can be "just," since
it is inevitable that innocents will be killed, maimed
and left bereft by those means: bombs, landmines,
mortars, machinegun fire, etc. etc. etc.
Deborah Harrell
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