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Abstract: This article addresses some of the important issues raised by the killing of innocents in time of war. It focuses on what it means, in a context of war, for an individual to be innocent, why it is morally wrong to kill innocent individuals, and whether the moral wrongness is merely prima facie and subject to override by other, more weighty moral considerations or whether it is absolute. It concludes that while it cannot prove that we should never kill noncombatants or innocents, it does elaborate a way of thinking which gives sense to the acceptance of such an absolute prohibition.
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