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Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?

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Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
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RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war?
August 11, 2022 at 12:38 pm (This post was last modified: August 11, 2022 at 12:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 11, 2022 at 8:31 am)Helios Wrote:
Quote:You seem not to have read what you are responding to.
Yes i did

bennyboy Wrote:If life is not intrinsically valuable, then someone has to (gets to?) determine an arbitrary value-- life X is worth maintaining, life Y is not. And that's a dangerous slope to build on purpose.

This is the end of my post, after which you said "nope." Are you SURE you read it? Cuz if you did, what you said about it doesn't make sense, and doesn't accord with what you'd already said in previous posts.
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RE: Moral justification for the execution of criminals of war? - by bennyboy - August 11, 2022 at 12:38 pm

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