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I don't imagine we could ever have an environmentally healthy just war. We need only look at torn and poisoned outcomes from past ballistic international encounters to see "healthy war" as yet another oxymoron capital city leaders fail to notice. If no environmentally secure and well-defended organic life justice results, then no ecological resilience-growing war. If no ecologically positive war, then no economically just war as any short-term empowerment wins are abundantly offset by long-term losses of trust and well-being and robust trade transactions, relationships, communications. If no economic just war, justified violence, justifiable aggression, then no democratically healthy just war. If no politically cooperative win/win just war of co-empowerment, then no socially just war, justified violence, justifiable aggression. If no social or political or economic or ecological just war, then no theologically supported just war. If no theological just war then war is just inhumane madness, lose/lose destruction, absence of all that could be win/win sacred, cooperatively owned CoPresence. Justice may "Just say No" to drugs, but restorative healing justice definitely says No to retributive injustice, aggression violence retaliation bullying hatred war.

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