Collective war and individualistic ethics: Against the conscription of `self-defense'.

Argues for an alternative view of individual self-defense which doesn't condone elimination of blameless people. Undercutting of the attempt to justify the war ethic in terms of individual mortality; Alternative moral analysis of the war ethic; Compromise between individualist and collectivist views of human reality; Moral sanctions for defensive war and private self-defense; More.