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Jeff McMahan

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

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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.
Jeff McMahan

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I am grateful for the respondents’ careful attention to my essay. Their comments focus largely on my proposal for selective conscientious objection as a partial solution to the challenge to enlistment and...
Jeff McMahan

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