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156. Four questions as to the relation of the state to the right of man as man to free life.

K. The right of the state over the individual in war.

157. (1) Has the state a right to override this right in war? It must be admitted that war is not 'murder,' either on the part of those who fight or of those who cause the war

158. Yet it may be a violation of the right of life. It does not prove it not to be so, that (a) those who kill do not intend to kill anyone in particular

159. Or that (b) those who are killed have incurred the risk voluntarily. Even if they have, it does not follow that they had a 'right' to do so

160. It may be said that the right to physical life may be overridden by a right arising from the exigencies of moral life

161. But this only shifts the blame of war to those who are responsible for those exigencies; it remains a wrong all the same

162. But in truth most wars of the last 400 years have not been wars for political liberty, but have arisen from dynastic ambition or national vanity