Just War: A military action that is justified as being permissible for legal or moral reasons; also called just war theory, just war tradition. (Dictionary.com)
The Just War theory definition provides me with some very interesting thought. Within this theory, it states that there needs to be a moral reason, or a person must have a just cause for going to war. What I find to be interesting, is that it is nearly impossible to say that everyone has a the same idea for what a “just action” might look like. What is considered just to one group of people, could be seen very differently from another group. Looking at our society and how it views the act of war, I think that people find any reason to engage in war. It is a strong message and it gets peoples attention. Putting all other theories and opinions aside, if the world were to live by this theory, what actions would be considered just and unjust? How would one ever decide what their actions look like to the people on the other side? In this case, I believe that people would start out with they view as having a just cause but then after awhile, this just reasoning would get lost in the actions of war. It is possible that after the time of 9/11, people put this just war theory into action and found our reasoning for going to war as moral? Instead of having my questions of war be answered with this theory, I now have even more questions that are going to left unanswered.