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Natural law and war
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Religious Studies
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05/08/2014

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Iraq
Definition
Aquinas
absolute moral principles governing when it is appropriate to use military force can be reached through use of reason
firm rational basis
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Child soldiers
Definition
primary precepts- humans should live in an ordered society that values education
secondary precept-children should not be sent to war
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Geneva convention
Definition
torture-good interior act but a bad exterior act
existence of torture can lead to bad interior acts such as Abu Ghraib
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Recruitment
Definition
money was efficient cause that got them to iraq
final cauasese is different
many belive end purpose to establish peace and democracy , has been lost or compromised
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Pacifism
Definition
christian pacifism-wrong to kill
early church pacifist
many WW1 soldiers objected on religious grounds
jesus taught followers to turn the other cheek
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Genocide
Definition
primary precepts used to establish secondary to prevent life from being destroyed
may be used to support Jus in Bello (dont kill innocents)
used to require someone to act
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Landmines
Definition
real and apparent goods
indiscriminate weapons- apparent goods- seem to be effective by helping one side win the war but arnt because kill innocents
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Hiroshima
Definition
double effect
intention to destroy military base- civillian deaths were a by-product
doctrine of double effect- civillian deaths proportionate to millions of deaths prevented
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