RtP is a theory about the role legitimacy of governments as a whole. Military responsibility to civilians is codified in international law.
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I should add that it is not unlimited in scope. I did not mean to imply that I believed this likely to have been a war crime.
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Nothing is a war crime in 2017, apparently.
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That's patently untrue. My point is that an airstrike that kills civilians is not inherently criminal under either US or international law.
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I was being sarcastic. No need to go all literal on everything I say.
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I felt that your sarcasm was in service of a flippant untruth.
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Pedantry gets real tiring after a while.
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…you could avoid encouraging it? I sympathize with wishing to live in an era where pedantry is unnecessary. However, this is not that era.
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