A construction worker may have agreed to a risky job, but this does not oblige him to follow orders where it is foreseen that the harm risked will materialize. If the worker is directed by his site foreman to climb an unstable scaffold in a cyclone, he is within his rights to refuse, morally and...

If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then presumably we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization—or military abolition—would seem to be the...