From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
> I don't see why, if causality is
> problematic, there need be any
> confusion between begetting (cause)
> and justification.
>
> But in any case, a cause is not a
> justification.
> If I am abused as a child and this
> has something to do with my abuse of
> others, there is cause but not justification.
>
> mbs
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That works ok when we're dealing with individualist approaches to ethics but when we try to carry those intuitions into the realm of institutional violence [and the slippery slope towards it] between States and other States or non-State actors the concepts start failing us in a big way, because causation becomes politicized as justification and there's no neutral party...........
Ian