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).
Civil
War, like the Marvel comic book crossover series (written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Steve McNiven) that it loosely adapts, revolves around superheroes being split
over a registration act, with Steven Rogers and Tony Stark leading the opposing sides - so, it's only fitting that Steve and Tony's plot threads take
priority here
over other characters» storylines.