how does war cause ethics?

Answer 1

War doesn't cause ethics.

Answer 2

If it is a question about the state of philosophical debate on the morals of war, the answer is yes. Most Western thinking about military ethics has its roots in Augustine, the sainted Christian writer from North Africa whose elaborate theory of “just warfare” has provided a framework for debate over the 16 centuries since his death. And for philosophers in the Augustinian tradition, proportionality is one of the things you should consider when contemplating war. Others are the probability of success and whether warfare is a last resort: have all the other options been tried? In this context, the proportionality question is judged by the destruction which the war will cause, weighed against the good it may do.

Answer 3

Who said it does? Ethics can sometimes cause war.

Answer 4

Wars happen because somebody else violates a set of ethics, war doesn't actually create ethics.

Answer 5

Curious. Are you asking that we cannot have ethics and ethical boundaries until we have broken them? Some might say the same about moral boundaries, which of course are even more maleable than ethical ones. Brings up an interesting school of thought. Man only knows his limits when he surpasses them....

Answer 6

war doesn't cause ethics.... there are ethics to war.... and at times a diference in oppinion of ethics can cause war

Answer 7

Ethics is the first thing to blow up in wartime.

Answer 8

all war really is: a study of good and evil and moral duty and moral principles or practice of human behavior.