Ethics of Liberty, Chapter 25: On Relations Between States

In this chapter, Rothbard examines the vital topic of war and peace. The first thing he observes is that harming innocents in pursuit of a just war (or other justified violence) is criminal. So, “War, then, even a just defensive war, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals themselves” (p. 190). この章でロスバードは重要な和戦の話題を調べる。初めに、正当化した暴力で正義を求めても無罪者に害を及ぼすことが犯罪であると述べる。で、「正当な防衛戦が犯罪者に厳しく限られた場合でしか正しくない」(p.190)。
Then, modern vernacular’s “collateral damage” is unjust. Therefore use of nuclear weapons is unjust; they are entirely useless to a free society. Rothbard condemns their existence and recommends nuclear disarmament as a good end. と言うことで、巻き添え被害が犯罪だ。それに、核兵器を使うのも犯罪になる。自由社会では無用だ。核兵器の存在を非難していい目的として核軍縮を推薦する。
On the grounds that just wars executed justly are the only justified ones, but no States actually do this (although theoretically, they could), he condemns all State war-making. Where a just cause does exist, it is still best pursued on an individual level, by the revolutionaries willing to directly act. 正しく実施された正しい戦のみが正当化した戦だとしても、政府がそうしないとの根拠で政府の全ての戦争を非難する。戦を正当化した場合でも人々の個人的な行動が最善だ。革命は革命家お任せ。
Also, in a departure from the topic of war, Rothbard finds foreign aid to be unjust. 和戦の題から少しそれて、ロスバードは外国援助が正しくないと述べる。
I’d say Rothbard is correct throughout this chapter. 拙者の意見は、この章ではロスバードが正解でござる。

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I'm a libertarian. I prefer reading articles and books to listening to podcasts, although I hear that podcasts are more popular. Call it Picard's Syndrome.
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