Moral injury is the term used for the emotional and spiritual pain that can afflict anyone who is asked or voluntarily performs actions that run counter to their moral codes. In essence, it is a wound to the conscience.

Its goal is to educate the public about "moral injury" - the debilitating guilt some people feel when they take actions that go against their ethical codes and personal belief systems.

The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited is divided into four themes: the factors framing the decision to intervene; who should do the fighting and bear the risk of dying; debates over the need for an ethical framework; and what does winning imply is cases of intervention.

Hence the moral reality of war can be summed up in this way: when soldiers fight freely, choosing one another as enemies and designing their own battles, their war is not a crime; when they fight without freedom, their war is not their crime.

This concept analysis provides a renewed definition of moral injury in relation to the experience of veterans - 'moral trauma' and defined as: 'the existential, psychological, emotional and or spiritual trauma arising from a conflict, violation or betrayal, either by omission or commission, of or within one's moral ...

Conclusions: Although not considered a mental illness, moral injury is an important condition for psychiatrists to have an awareness of, as it is associated with psychological distress and/or impairments in emotional, social or behavioural functioning.

As a type of political violence, armed conflict sometimes involves the use of excessive military force or results in unintended harms to human beings, their cultural and religious artifacts and the wider environment.

War subverts democracy and promotes tyranny and fanaticism; kills and sickens and impoverishes people; ravages nature. War is a keystone problem, the eradication of which would make our other social problems much more tractable.

War is generally defined as violent conflict between states or nations. Nations go to war for a variety of reasons. It has been argued that a nation will go to war if the benefits of war are deemed to outweigh the disadvantages, and if there is a sense that there is not another mutually agreeable solution.

The ethics of war explores the moral limits and possibilities of conflict. The argument proceeds from a just war standpoint which balances rules or principles against the moral capacities and dispositions of belligerents and the particular circumstances in which they act.

Moral theories, such as the variations on virtue ethics, deontological ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism, are expected – inter alia – to explain the basic orientation of morality, give us principles and directives, justify those, and thereby (if all goes well) guide our actions.

Objective morality is the idea that right and wrong exist factually, without any importance of opinion. It's the concept that some actions and beliefs are imperatively good or inherently bad, and that the goodness or badness of those things holds true no matter who you are or what else you believe in.