Past Killings and Proportionality in War

Abstract

This article builds on some arguments that I developed in the course of discussing Cecile Fabre's article, “War Exit,” on PEA Soup: http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/05/ethics-discussions-at-pea-soup-cecile-fabres-war-exit-with-critical-precis-by-helen-frowe.html. I am grateful to Cecile for helping me to develop my views. I am also grateful to the war discussion group at Oxford for their thoughts about an earlier draft. Thanks to Seth Lazar for sharing his unpublished work on this issue, and to Jeff McMahan and Darrell Moellendorf for discussion of the topic. I am especially grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for a Major Research Fellowship that afforded me the time to work on this article.