"Plausible moral theory must have at its center a concern for the lives and well-being of persons...It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons...a necessary condition of the justifiable pursuit of an any objectives in war by any means whatsoever...is that one be justified in engaging in such killing and violence in the first place."
January 1, 1970
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