Proportionate Response
Countries have a limited right to self-defense, but must use restraint in retaliating against terror acts. The archaic revenge doctrine ("Eye for an Eye") must be replaced with one of ceasefire ("Turn the Other Cheek"), even when desiring vengeance for attacks on women and children. Examples of past overreactions:
- Rebelling colonists against their rightful King over minor taxation issues
- Launching a Civil War over private property rights of slaveholders
- Allied WWII atrocities over surprise attacks and a few ethnic cleansing events
- Threatening nuclear war over some "too close" missiles based in a sovereign country.
War by the powerful is always bad, and must never be fought to win, especially if even one civilian life would be lost.
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