Comments on: Quick Note On Principle-Bereft Conservative Utilitarianism https://barelyablog.com/quick-note-on-principle-bereft-conservative-utilitarianism/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: DaveForTexas™ https://barelyablog.com/quick-note-on-principle-bereft-conservative-utilitarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-31736 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:34:39 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=160847#comment-31736 “I believe in adequate defense at the
coastline and nothing else.”

Author of “War is a Racket”
by: Smedley Butler

]]> By: Jonathan B. Horen https://barelyablog.com/quick-note-on-principle-bereft-conservative-utilitarianism/comment-page-1/#comment-31719 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:03:15 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=160847#comment-31719 I’d not read, or known of, your 2003 piece “‘Just War’ for Dummies”. A good read — informative and thought-provoking. One question: Why did you reference St. Augustine, when you wrote, “The impending attack on Iraq also flunked the criterion for a preemptive war, facilitated in St. Augustine’s idea of the “just cause,” whereby it’s permissible to attack someone who would otherwise shortly and imminently attack you.”? I ask, because we have a perfectly good (and much older) basis in the Talmudic injunction of “??? ?????? ???? ??????” [If someone is coming to kill you, hurry to kill him]… probably itself the basis for St. Augustine’s “just cause”. (see here https://bit.ly/2klr9lj for an excellent discussion, albeit in Hebrew)

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