On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Wed Nov 28 20:45:58 PST 2001



> On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities
>
>We can start out making this clearer perhaps by following the
>principle of the UN law on this: No war except in self-defense
>
>This is on direct analogy to American legal rule on self-defense ,
>which is that an individual , A, cannot use deadly force on another
>individual , B, unless A is in reasonable fear of death or serious
>bodily harm from B.
>
>I submit that the U.S. is and was not in reasonable fear of war from
>Afghanistan.
>
>Charles

Where were you on September 11?

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