Right to kill depends on readiness to expose own soldiers

Evidence

The right to kill with impunity in war thus seems to be based upon a tacit structural premise: if one has the right to kill without crime, it is because that right is granted mutually. If I agree to confer upon another the right to kill me or my people with impunity, that is because I count on benefiting from the same exemption if I myself kill. The decriminalization of warrior homicide presupposes a structure of reciprocity. The killing is allowed only because it is a matter of killing each other. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 522 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A sui generis principle of imperial-combatant immunity emerged above the law of armed conflict; Refusing to kill is about what one becomes, not what one ought to do; Legal immunity for wartime killing presupposes that the right to kill is mutual. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 522 (+10 more)

Related

• Legal immunity for wartime killing presupposes that the right to kill is mutual. (similarity 0.93)
• War’s immunity from murder prosecutions rests on mutual reciprocity (similarity 0.90)
• Remote killing removes reciprocal constraints that traditionally shaped warrior morality. (similarity 0.83)
• Refusing to kill is about what one becomes, not what one ought to do (similarity 0.83)
• Risk-free warfare erodes the legal principles justifying the right to kill in war. (similarity 0.82)
• Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal. (similarity 0.81)
• Just-cause theorists grant only the just warrior the right to kill (similarity 0.81)
• Modern jus in bello rests on combatants’ equal right to kill, not on punishment (similarity 0.80)
• A sui generis principle of imperial-combatant immunity emerged above the law of armed conflict (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• War’s immunity from murder prosecutions rests on mutual reciprocity #corroborates (0.85)
• Legal immunity for wartime killing presupposes that the right to kill is mutual. #corroborates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 522
• Remote killing free from retaliation creates a moral hazard problem #expands (0.60)