In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I gave more thought to Edward Feser's implicit conclusion that I linked in yesterday's post, that no war can be a just war. If that's the case, this would support my tentative view that "just war" doctrine is a category error , "a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category, or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property." If no war can be just by its nature, why are we complaining that any particular war is unjust? I asked Chrome AI mode, "Can you find any wars in history that clearly fit just war criteria?" It answered, In political philosophy and moral theology, no historical conflict perfectly satisfies all Just War criteria because real-world battlefield actions invariably breach the strict ethical requirements of wartime conduct. But it then proceeded to give three partial examples, ...