Sentences with phrase «about noncombatants»

Another dispatch from the Mexican drug war, this time about noncombatants caught in the crossfire, it pales in comparison to Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala in filmmaking terms but I suppose that it packs a crude punch (body count: 3 + 2 dogs).

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Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants.

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).

In particular, serious concern was expressed about the nature of fully autonomous weapons and their likely inability, in making attack decisions, to distinguish noncombatants and judge the proportionality of expected civilian harms to expected military gains.