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== ''Jus in bello'' - How must a just war be conducted? ==
== ''Jus in bello'' - How must a just war be conducted? ==
Minimum force should used be to achieve just goals. Civilian areas without military target should not be attacked. Force used should not be out of proportion to the wrong which the war tries to right. Efforts should be made to minimize casualties, especially civilian casualties. The enemy are also people.
Minimum force should used be to achieve just goals. Civilian areas without military target should not be attacked. Force used should not be out of proportion to the wrong which the war tries to right. Efforts should be made to minimize casualties, especially civilian casualties. The enemy are also people.
== Catholic Church on Just War Theory ==
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy.
At one and the same time:
- [1] the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- [2] all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- [3] there must be serious prospects of success;
- [4] the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.
These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine.
The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good." <ref>http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2309.htm</ref>
==References==
==References==