ABSTRACT
Most people today would probably agree that war is among the worst things, indeed on a large scale probably the worst thing, that humans can inflict on themselves. Not only is combat itself, the deliberate maiming or killing of humans by one another, and the destruction of property, unspeakably terrible-and contrary to any moral code in almost any other situation-but war requires for its execution many more acts otherwise immoral: deception (in propaganda and espionage), terror, and the treatment of human beings instrumentally as objects to be manipulated. Not only that, but war usually brings in its wake still other evils: pillage, rape, hunger, torture, disease.
