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If someone specific is oppressing or destroying your property or life, then you have just cause to go to war with them, but not riot and cause collateral damage
by brobdingnagians 5y ago
If someone specific is oppressing or destroying your property or life, then you have just cause to go to war with them, but not riot and cause collateral damage to your fellow citizens.
"Just war" is a targeted, purposeful, organized thing, and it is not to be taken lightly.
Rioting is random destruction of fellow citizens' property or life because of generalized hatred.
- tsol 5y ago>"Just war" is a targeted, purposeful, organized thing, and it is not to be taken lightly. >Rioting is random destruction of fellow citizens' property or life because of generalized hatred. I'm not saying you're wrong per se, but making an observation; this means the state has a monopoly on violence, including on unjust violence(ex when individuals break the rules during just wars, which can be used as an excuse to allow unjust actions). I think there are some flaws to that argument, and following that logic to the beginning of America's independence leads one to view America as an unjust state
- brobdingnagians 5y agoI see what you mean; I badly worded that. I meant more that any group of individuals could get together to decide to wage war and that the state doesn't have a monopoly on violence per se.