Status Updates From Just and Unjust Wars: A Mor...

"He was half-dressed and was holding up his trousers with both hands as he ran. I refrained from shooting at him... I did not shoot partly because of that detail about the trousers. I had come here to shoot at 'fascists;' but a man who is holding up his trousers isn't a 'fascist,' he is visibly a fellow-creature, similar to yourself, and you don't feel like shooting at him."

"These will also be the limits of a just war. Once they are won, or once they are within political reach, the fighting should stop. Soldiers killed beyond that point die needlessly, and to force them to fight and possibly to die is a crime akin to that of agression itself."

"Not that his obedience can never be criminal; for when he violates the rules of war, superior orders are no defense. The atrocities that he commits are his own; the war is not."

Just something to take the edge off…