| Abolitionism | Today:the viewpoint that the death penalty ought to be abolished. See retentionism.
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| Competent authority | whether or not the leader is the legitimate representative of the people, and whether he/she has constitutional authority to declare war
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| Contractarianism | The theory that only humans can have rights, because only humans can enter into agreements (contacts) and recognize duties springing from those agreements.
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| Deterrence | A concept of criminal justice: punishing criminals with the intent to deter them (specific deterrence) or others (general deterrence) from committing the same crime.
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| ipso facto | By the fact itself
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| jus bellum, | Just war: a war conducted in self-defense according to set rules
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| jus in bello | Just in war. Rules for proper conduct of war.
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| lex talionis | The law of retaliation; an eye for an eye. A retributivist argument for punishment.
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| reduction ad absurdum | A form of argument in which you reduce your opponent's viewpoint to its absurd consequences.
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| Retentionism | The viewpoint that the death penalty ought to be retain (kept as an option).
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| Totalitarianism | A form of government that views the state as all-important and the lives of its citizens as disposable.
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