warism
nounEtymology From war + -ism.
1
Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
- The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185:
- He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2):