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Sparing Civilians (Hardcover)
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Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers. If any moral
principle commands near universal assent, this one does. It is
written into every major historical and religious tradition that
has addressed armed conflict. It is uncompromisingly inscribed in
international law. It underpins and informs public discussion of
conflict-we always ask first how many civilians died? And it guides
political practice, at least in liberal democracies, both in how we
fight our wars and in which wars we fight. Few moral principles
have been more widely and more viscerally affirmed than this one.
And yet, in recent years it has faced a rising tide of dissent.
Political and military leaders seeking to slip the constraints of
the laws of war have cavilled and qualified. Their complaints have
been unwittingly aided by philosophers who, rebuilding just war
theory from its foundations, have concluded that this principle is
at best a useful fiction. Sparing Civilians aims to turn this tide,
and to vindicate international law, and the ruptured consensus. In
doing so, Seth Lazar develops new insights into the morality of
harm, relevant to everyone interested in normative ethics and
political philosophy.
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