Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 384 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Realism About War
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The idea
Realism about war holds that moral categories stop at the border's edge — war is necessity and interest, and ethics there is decoration.
In practice
The reply realists must survive: soldiers, courts, and publics keep making moral judgments about wars — atrocity is not a category error.
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