Just-war doctrine itself enables disguising atrocities as moral action

Evidence

Just-war principles were devised that specify when the use of violent force is morally justified. However, given people’s dexterous facility for justifying violent means, all kinds of inhumanities are clothed in moral trappings. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 345

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Counterinsurgency doctrine weaponizes knowledge and empathy as tools of empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 503; Images of distant suffering provoke moral engagement and military intervention. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 15