Centre for Military Ethics: Ethics Playing Cards

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Les militaires ne devraient être utilisés que pour défendre l’État.

Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez? La sécurité des étrangers importe-t-elle? Qui choisit?

Ultimately, as long as it is lawful, it is up to the state to determine what is in the national interest, to decide how their military is deployed and in pursuit of what type of mission.

All states have a responsibility to uphold basic human rights for everyone, including those who are not their citizens. The military should be used if necessary to uphold these rights. States would carry some blame if they failed to uphold human rights for everyone.

James Pattison, ‘Whose Responsibility to Protect? The Duties of Humanitarian Intervention’, Journal ofMilitary Ethics, 7 (2008), p262.

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