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Kohlberg’s response was an attempt to ‘dissuade him by arguing about the difference between justified and unjustified killing,’ thus establishing a morality that recognizes some forms of killing as legitimate. It is as though the way to create a child’s acceptance of animals’ deaths is by convincing him or her that sometimes humans must be killed, too. “Just” wars then justify meat eating.