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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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