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

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To Kill the Nazis to Free the Country, I Think It's Swallowed Up

I think that to kill the Nazis to free the country, I think it's swallowed up because it's in the same chain. So we can probably continue this chain, why are you killing Nazis tofree the country? Why? And then eventually you might get to something like a Vickin Stenian like explanations come to an end because the country should be free. The Nazis are not innocents, so there's no problem with intending their death, right? It's not analogous to the case of dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Right, but you're talking about swallowing up. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

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