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    An absolute precautionary obligation that ignores strateg... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Military forces are obligated to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize incidental civilian casualties and damage to civilian objects during military operations.

    An absolute precautionary obligation that ignores strategic context collapses into pacifism, which most just war theorists explicitly reject as a framework.

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    • 1.Just war theory requires discrimination between combatants and civilians, which demands contextual judgment about threats and proportionality.
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    • 2.Absolute precaution applied universally would prohibit all defensive force, rendering self-defense and collective security logically impossible.
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    • 3.Strategic context determines whether force prevents greater harm; ignoring it treats all force as equally harmful regardless of consequences.
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    • 1.The claim conflates precaution with pacifism; graduated precaution can permit defensive war while still constraining aggressive first strikes.
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    • 2.Strategic context reasoning historically justifies expansive military action; precautionary constraints may better protect civilians than context-dependent calculations.
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    • 3.Just war theorists disagree on whether pacifism is indefensible; some defend limited pacifism as morally coherent, not a reductio ad absurdum.
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