Warum Deontologen Pazifisten sein müssen

Although deontologists traditionally claim a strong moral prohibition on killing, according to the Just War Theory it is permissible to wage war under certain conditions. The proportionality condition requires that the evils caused by a war and the evils prevented by it are in an appropriate proportion to one another. The aim of this dissertation is to show that a deontological interpretation of the proportionality condition goes hand in hand with the fact that Just War Theory collapses into a form of pacifism, the so-called Just War Pacifism.