Assertion: intervention | /r/HasProperty | justifiable
Facets:
value: by war standards
type: OTHER
value: to address the most egregious violations
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Interventions, then, are justifiable only to address the most egregious violations; the threshold conditions in the target state must be those that, as Walzer put it, “shock the conscience of mankind.
text: For this and other reasons much discussion is devoted to whether interventions are justifiable when unauthorized by the United Nations (and thus, illegal).
text: It would follow that virtually no interventions are justifiable by just war standards: more often many more people will be beyond rescue than what follows from narrower understandings of what a successful intervention entails.