45 - Humane War feat. Samuel Moyn
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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Are You a Christian Pacifist?
Tolstoy is an absolute pacifist. He thinks that any humanization of war, you're just making moral cable. What we need to do is abolish the thing in the same way he takes,. like all these regulations for making slavery more humane says, no, just get rid of it. So let's then outline a couple of other positions. Then there's another position that we haven't mentioned: some American Air Force guys talking about, hey, if you want wars to be short, don't worry about making them humane. You can make them as brutal as you want. The more brutal, the more killing you have in a shorter time, the more humane it is going
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