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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

23583	If an aggression is unjust, the constraints on how it is fought are much stricter [Rawls]
	Full Idea: When a country's right to war is questionable and uncertain, the constraints on the means it can use are all the more severe.
	From: John Rawls (A Theory of Justice [1972], p.379), quoted by Michael Walzer - Just and Unjust Wars 14
	A reaction: This is Rawls opposing the idea that combatants are moral equals. The restraints are, of course, moral. In practice aggressors are usually the worst behaved.