Phil in SF quoted Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, …
To that end, the State Department conjured up a casuistic standard that the judges must come only from the nine countries which inside the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri.
— Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass (Page 715 - 716)
new word: casuist
- a person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; a sophist.
- a person who resolves moral problems by the application of theoretical rules