Most societies valorize soldiers. Such social norms cause the following effects, among others:

It increases the benefits of being a soldier relative to the costs, and thus can induce more people on the margin to become soldiers. It tends to promote certain kinds of soldier behavior and attitudes (honor, protection, loyalty) over others (looting, rapaciousness, [...]

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Calling “hero” everyone killed in war, no matter the circumstances of their death, not only helps sustain the ethos of martial glory that keeps young men and women signing up to kill and die for the state, no matter the justice of the cause, but also saps the word of meaning, dishonouring the [...]

Suppose there are two states, MoreJustia and LessJustia. Both MoreJustia and LessJustia are unjust states, but MoreJustia is significantly closer to being just and legitimate than LessJustia. Suppose for a long time that, in order to punish LessJustia’s evil king and to try to edge him out of power, MoreJustia had imposed economic sanctions on [...]