https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_9QDb9Z0o

there are 'legitimate and illegitimate wars'

I wonder to what extend it's true what Ry Dawson mentioned recently

and 'legitimate and illegitimate combatants'

about the civil war and from the boat to the killing field

doesn't the notion of illegitimate war go back at least to christianity?

pre-liberalism

> see, america hasn't actually waged war, ever
@stem gives that statement even more validity

how do you mean?

oh you mean sanctioned wars

https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Augustine/augustine_justwar.html

God Bless the UN and human rights

just war theory

Based username

yes the rules of war were developed in the early modern period

you can only go to war if it's against evil

and shit

which is basically the american way

1. Do not harrass, threaten, dox, or share private information from people of the server or outside of the server.

which is convenient because "evil" is very vague

i fell harrassed

demand action

yes you're right, religion had its own sort of legitimacy system

but that was punctuated by periods of standardized warfare

against that weak greek sense of humor

like war in the classical period and the early modern period

@Panikooooos germans be like

whenever you see the 'legitimation' of war

you see the worst atrocities

and the least regard for civilians

because they're not just enemies

but Germans

Combatants

they're ***illegitimate*** enemies

so what ever sick Sargon fantasizes is justified

so the just war theory basically encourages countries to make up excuses and lie

Anyone heard of project 100,000. The US sent actual retards in to fight the frontlines

Sargon of Akkad is an intellectual

and disrespect the rules of war, yes stem

you don't have to follow the rules of war and common decency if your enemies are not 'real' enemies

because they cheated first, they're not legitimate enemies, so the rules don't apply