Question: Is a military coup ever ethical? Is it even possible to be? As an action, it seems to violate almost every major doctrine of ethics. Under what conditions, assuming if any, is a military coup justified?
Note:
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>>1418674
When the government is not upholding constitutional responsibilities it is the military's duty to overthrow it.
What were Cesar's last words again?
>>1418747
"Yolo, senpai."
>>1418674
sure, if you've got a mandate of heaven
>>1418747
>et
>tu
>Brute
>>1418765
What's being implied?
Yes. If the people being overthrown are terrible rulers, if a coup is the only possible way to overthrow them, and if the people replacing them are better rulers.
>>1418836
*to replace them
>>1418674
if the land is ruled by a corrupt monarch, do a coup, yo
but if you can vote in a new leader that should be the main course of action under any circumstance; coups are only for when the party in power refuses to relinquish it and is actively fucking everything up
>>1418674
A coup is always justified under any circumstances. The state are the people, not the government. So if the people(which inclues the military) want change, they will have it.
>>1418809
That his own illegitimate son stabbed him in the dick.
>>1418674
>Is a military coup ever ethical?
Yes, how is this even a question? The role of the military is to be a check on the government on behalf if the people
Many shitty Roman emperors were deposed via coup d'etat.
