Fetterman on Israel: 'Keep wiping out Iranian leadership'

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39. That's not what Aquinas and Augustine are talking about.

Read Immanuel Kant and The Critique of Pure Reason. The philosophical criticism of Rawls' bullshit is that all sorts of "reasons" can be used to "justify" aggressive military conflicts as philosophically "just wars." Think the 2003 Iraq invasion or Israel's current illegal aggressive warfare attack on Iran. The idea of philosophically justifying pre-emptive aggressive warfare with vacuous philosophical bullshit like Rawls' bullshit is fallacious -- both in law, international law and in ethics. There is no legal nor moral nor ethical/axiological merit to the silly argument that I am justified in hitting some bad motherfucker just because some day some time in the future I believe that bad motherfucker might hit me before I hit him so I am morally "justified" in striking that bad motherfucker first out of some bullshit claim of some sort of "self-defense. Kant suggests that he rejects the very notion of a just war, arguing that the concept is inherently contradictory. He believed that the state of nature is a condition of injustice and that the idea of a "just enemy" is nonsensical.