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David Mellow Counterfactuals and the Proportionality
Criterion Ethics and International Affairs, 20.4 (2006): 439-454. The
journal Ethics and International Affairs and publisher Blackwell have kindly provided free access
to this article at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2006.00044.x Abstract In addition to having a just cause, a resort to war or use of
military force must be proportionate in order to be morally justified. In
this essay, Mellow argues for the need of a counterfactual baseline with
moral qualifiers when making the proportionality evaluation. In defending his
proposal, he also contends that the relevant goods and harms that are weighed
in the proportionality evaluation are not as open-ended as is sometimes
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