"There is no 'just war'"

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153. ITT: People thinking "no just war" means "all war is wrong and never should be fought"

War is a (sometimes very) necessary evil, but even with the best of intentions, with the best of justifications, there's a lot of immorality involved in the actual process of war that makes it "not just", because sometimes you have to make moral calculations no human should ever have to make. For example, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of lives, most of them Japanese. Yet can we really say "vaporizing a few hundred thousand human beings" is just? It may have been necessary to avoid something even worse, but that's different from seeing it as a positive good (and calling a war "just" implies that everything that happens in said war is just". Strategic bombing took thousands of lives, largely because it destroyed the logistical networks that those societies relied on, but it likely saved many lives by shortening the existences of the genocidal regimes that ruled over them.