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Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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You Can Not Intend That Even Though You See It Coming

If you intend the end and there's only one means to get to the end, or at least you've already chosen some means to get it, you intend those as well. You might think you might say, I wasn't thinking about the people. Well, you're in bad faith. Whereas if it's like, I'm trying to get them to surrender how by bombing a munitions factory, how just by dropping a bomb, the village next to the munitions factory that gets burned, that never shows up in the house. Even if you know, it will definitely follow even that the village will be destroyed. It's slightly more complicated than thinking, yeah, bummer man, but yes

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