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7 reasons to consider moving on from just war theory
Pope Leo XIV declared in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas that just war theory is outdated. The document, titled On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, states that the moral reasoning used to guide decisions about war has often been used to justify various types of conflict.
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