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if you love your home but don't have any more fundamental reason for fighting there's no war.

Grotius' theory of Just War holds that self-defense against an invader is justification for the use of force.

406 posted on 06/14/2005 9:37:01 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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Grotius' theory of Just War holds that self-defense against an invader is justification for the use of force.

But Grotius did not consider a rebellion to be a Just War.

409 posted on 06/14/2005 9:43:27 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.)
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