I believe a lot of us, normal and fair minded people, have asked this question as many times as we have seen and read from both mainstream media and social media on what is happening in Iran.
Every viewing and article fills me with unspeakable sadness and the evil that permeates human beings who inflicts untold sufferings and death on other human being just because they are of different nationalities, race and religion.
And I believe every normal and fair minded people, regardless of race, nationality and religion felt the same too.
The aggressors have no remorse nor a single ounce of empathy in their souls.
And those on the other or receiving end of their evil are generally innocent people who have no say in the root cause or causes that the aggressors `painted’ as the catalysts that initiated their one sided unprovoked act.
The attack on Iran was not only evil and supremely harmful, but also, on balance, morally and legally wrong,
The justification for the attack that it was necessary for the world to attain peace is like telling your children that the gifts they got over Christmas was from Father Christmas.
How could the invaders maintain and expects the world to go along in their justitification that the invasion is morally acceptable because the benefits far outweigh by its potential harms?
There are no such things as a justified and morally right war.
An unprovoked war is no different from and to other forms of violence, regardless of its scale.
A war and for that matter, any war is unjustified because it killed many innocents.
It is wrong to attack, harm or kill innocents, because they have done nothing to lose their rights not to be attacked, harmed or killed.
Civilian death is the most troubling aspect of any war.
A person’s right not to be harmed implies that others have a corresponding duty not to harm her.
Violating this duty, means the aggressor lose their own right not to be harmed and thus, their innocence.
Who are ‘the innocent’ in war?
Most agree that most civilians are relevantly innocent, since they do not contribute to an unjust threat in any sufficiently meaningful way even though there might be some civilians clearly support those who fight.
Even if some civilians were liable, however, attacking them would kill vastly disproportionate numbers of innocent and non-liable civilians.
It does not matter whether innocents are killed intentionally or merely foreseeably.
What matters is that they are killed.
The harms of war, even when ‘just cause’ is satisfied, are disproportionate to its benefits.
No war, no matter how small or large, limited and contained, is ‘worth it’ for the reason that it is the only means of preventing something worse.
What does the future hold for the people in Iran and Iran itself?
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