[Shard] - Sosaria
[Type] - Philosophy
[Book] - Red - 20 pages

[Title] - Essay: The Ethics Of War

[Author] - Gernontius Xantar



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"He has made his
weapons his gods. When
his weapons win, he is
defeated himself".

War, always an evil, is
sometimes the lesser of
two evils. Even then it

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needs additional
justification from the
degree of evil it opposes.
This question prompts the
inescapable question about
the conduct of war: what
should be its limits?
Should ethics tie ones

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hands when faced with an
implacable enemy? The
great general Montegorn
once said: "There is no
middle course in war".
This hard truth forces
one to recognize another;
that every war, however

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justified, reduces the
stock of human good and
diminishes civilization,
sometimes destroying in
seconds what centuries
built........