![]() When the beasts are beating in your gates, even the most pie-in-the-sky idealist knows now is the time to drive them back. One reason self-defense is sanctioned while punishing evil is prohibited hinges on the fact that, most often, self-defense is an urgent matter that cannot wait. In this, you’ll recall, International Law is simply catching up with the classic just war tradition’s first cause for war-protection of the innocent. ![]() Allowance is made, under Responsibility to Protect and other frameworks for intervention, for something more-though akin-to purely self-defense: the defense of other innocents elsewhere. It much prefers self-defense to be the primary-essentially sole-just cause for fighting. ![]() International Law is, often enough, particularly uncomfortable with the idea. I noted in the previous essay that one of the justificatory catalysts for entering into war against an aggressor is retributive, the punishment of evil. ![]()
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