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    It is not the case that Some acts or campaigns of terrorist violence against non-combatants can be justified

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    • 1.Collective moral responsibility cannot be transferred to individuals who lack direct causal agency over institutional wrongs.
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    • 2.Non-combatants in a democracy who vote for unjust policies remain categorically distinct from combatants who execute them.
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    • 3.Treating partial civic complicity as equivalent to forfeited immunity collapses the combatant/non-combatant distinction entirely, making all wars limitless.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Walzer's 'supreme emergency' doctrine requires near-certain civilizational destruction before overriding non-combatant immunity, a threshold terrorist campaigns virtually never meet.
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    • 2.Consequentialist justifications for terrorism presuppose a predictive certainty about political outcomes that empirical evidence on terrorism's effectiveness systematically refutes.
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    Reasons Against

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    • The victims, though non-combatants or common citizens, are not innocent of the wrongs the terrorists are fighting against
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