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Ethics, Security, and the War Machine (Paperback)
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Ethics, Security, and the War Machine (Paperback)
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If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust,
then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and
temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making
capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization-or military
abolition-would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the
other hand, if war is sometimes justified, as many believe, then it
must be permissible to prepare for it by creating and maintaining a
military establishment. Yet this view that the justifiability of
war-making is also sufficient to justify war-building is mistaken.
This book addresses questions of jus ante bellum, or justice before
war. Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a polity to
prepare for war by militarizing? When (if ever) and why (if at all)
is it morally permissible to create and maintain the potential to
wage war? In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian
population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent
military establishment, explores the moral and social costs of
militarization, and evaluates whether or not these costs are worth
bearing.
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