"By focusing on the entitlements of collectivities (notably nation states) as opposed to the well-being of individuals, the just war theory frames a rationale for war which omits the central moral issue...whether the massive, systematic and deliberate killing of human beings can ever be justified."
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Robert L. Holmes, Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence, (2017) p. xvii
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