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Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of Killing in War and The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life.
Traditional just war theory has it wrong. Soldiers are morally culpable for fighting in unjust wars—and thus deserve the option of selective conscientious objection.
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