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Just War Theory, Discrimination, Proportionality, Just cause, Comparative…
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Discrimination
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Prohibited acts such as bombing civilian residential areas that include no legitimate military targets, committing acts of terrorism or reprisal against civilians or prisoners of war
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Proportionality
Combatants must make sure that the harm caused to civilians or civilian property is not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated by an attack on a legitimate military objective.
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Comparative Justice
to overcome the presumption against the use of force, the injustice suffered by one party must significantly outweigh that suffered by the other.
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Probability of success
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Arms may not be used in a futile cause or in a case where disproportionate measures are required to achieve success
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No means malum in se
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Combatants may not use weapons or other methods of warfare that are considered evil, such as mass rape, forcing enemy combatants to fight against their own side or using weapons whose effects cannot be controlled (e.g., nuclear/biological weapons).
Competent authority
A just war must be initiated by a political authority within a political system that allows distinctions of justice
An attack or action must be intended to help in the defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a legitimate military objective,
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