If someone attacks you then you should fight back or make peace. Nothing wrong with defending yourself.
With me saying "just war" doesnt exist I'm trying to attack the justifications used for war. In history we see nations saying "we have to go to war because "all these things have happened that justify our moral right to war". Its not "the moral thing to do" there is another reason why you want you to go to war. Say that instead of hiding behind this moral reason that supposedly entitles you to go to war morally.
Like Ukraine defending itself against russia. Its (in my opinion) not enough to say they do so because they were attacked and so they are justified. They do it because they want to hold their territory and think with the support of the west they can retain it.
As a liberal i feel I need to step in and defend endless economic growth. Its not tied to resources as they're only one way an economy can grow. Economic growth can be 2 people buying digital art from each other.
Majority of the companies are nowhere near being resource capped. From their point of view the only thing for then to do is to keep doing more of what they do best. The problem and reason why endless growth gets a bad rep is that consumers are super apathetic and governments do a terrible job of regulating. So companies exploit consumer apathy and "eat" smaller companies with illegal practices.
Two that may be controversial. 1st There is no such thing as a just war. Both sides will always justify war and believe they're on the right side of it. I can still look at the war and choose a side but I dont think im morally above someone who chooses the other side.
2nd, warcrimes and rules of war are always valid strategies and people will always brake the rules if they think it would help them win or not lose. I understand the reasons we have them and i support post war trials to punish those who commit them but I dont think I'm morally above people who commit war crimes since I'd do exactly the same thing if it helped me not lose a war.
3rd one: you have a moral duty to defend your country from invasion.
You spend your whole life chilling in the woods eating berries but god forbid you eat 1 nosey kid and all of a sudden you're forever labeled a cannibal. Life is not fair.
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If someone attacks you then you should fight back or make peace. Nothing wrong with defending yourself.
With me saying "just war" doesnt exist I'm trying to attack the justifications used for war. In history we see nations saying "we have to go to war because "all these things have happened that justify our moral right to war". Its not "the moral thing to do" there is another reason why you want you to go to war. Say that instead of hiding behind this moral reason that supposedly entitles you to go to war morally.
Like Ukraine defending itself against russia. Its (in my opinion) not enough to say they do so because they were attacked and so they are justified. They do it because they want to hold their territory and think with the support of the west they can retain it.