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    It is not the case that Military necessity can legitimately override precautionary obligations when delay or restraint would cause greater total harm to combatants and civilians alike.

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    • 1.Claims about 'greater total harm' from delay are speculative and prone to motivated reasoning by those advocating military action.
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    • 2.Precautionary obligations exist precisely to constrain actions whose consequences are uncertain; relaxing them negates their normative purpose.
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    • 3.Allowing necessity to override precautions creates precedent enabling escalation and reduces incentives to develop genuinely protective alternatives.
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    • 1.Consequentialist ethics requires comparing actual outcomes: precaution that delays action may enable greater future harms than immediate military action.
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    • 2.Combatants have reduced moral status than civilians, so prioritizing their safety over mission success creates asymmetric ethical obligations.
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    • 3.Decision-makers facing imminent threats operate under uncertainty; requiring perfect precaution before action is epistemically unrealistic.
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