Sentences with phrase «noncombatant immunity»
Wigg - Stevenson insists that all nuclear weapons are «un-justifiable» and sinful because they are categorically indiscriminate and therefore fail the jus en bello requirement of noncombatant immunity.
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«Nuclear war is rejected in Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.»
One of the upshots of just war thinking is the rule of noncombatant immunity or discrimination, meaning that noncombatants must not be the intended targets of violence.
The pastoral letter on peace maintains that the principle of discrimination or noncombatant immunity must be held by all people within the church; however, the West German bishops» pastoral letter on war does not accept this principle as an absolute norm.)
As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).
The second pertains to what is called «noncombatant immunity,» meaning that there must be no intentional killing of innocent civilians.
Noncombatant immunity / discrimination.
Not exact matches
While granting that each form of conflict generates ambiguous cases, he argues for the importance of maintaining the fundamental immunity of noncombatants and for intervening to protect victims of indiscriminate warfare.