If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority,
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Pre-emptive military strikes undermine a nation's ethical standing.
- In plain terms
- Attacking first makes a country lose its moral high ground.
- What can you take from it?
- Ethical authority is lost through unprovoked aggression.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can force ever be ethical?
- Who judges moral authority?
Another view
It assumes moral authority is objective and universal.
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