SECTION 4 JUDAISM- TOPIC 2.4.7 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Question 1

What are weapons of mass desrtuction?

Answer 1

nuclear, chemical, biological weapons which can lead to devestations on a large scale

Question 2

SOWAA

Answer 2

“explicitly prohibits the waging of war”

“do not destroy its trees because you can eat their fruit”

Question 3

Benefits of WMDs

Answer 3

-shorten war
-potentially save lives if shorten wars
-can kill w/o damaging large infrastructures

Question 4

Problems of WMDs

Answer 4

-can go out of control (e.g biological)
-mainly used on civilians
-could fall into the wrong hands
–potential to wipe out human race entirely

Question 5

Divergent Jewish teaching about WMDs

Answer 5

-Talmud band wiping out more than 1/6 th of the population

-most jews against it
-okay to have as a threat but not acc use
-can limit the damage to to infrastructure -jews taught to kill the enemies and not the trees

-use of it however may be only solution to achieve peace

Question 6

NON-RELIGIOUS teachings about WMDs

Answer 6

-no humanists would use but prepared to have as a threat only!
-atheists support use for self-defence
-many atheists believe in principle of MAD

Question 7

Ethical theories about the use of WMDs

Answer 7

-situation ethics would support WMDs if it was most lo9vng this to do

only if reduces the amount of suffering

-UNITARIANS SUPPORT USE OF WMDs id they help more than harm!!!