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45 - Humane War feat. Samuel Moyn

Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

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Do You Think Domination Is a Pretext for Human Rights Atrocities?

I wonder if if you are taking like an anti war position in the basis than I asked you what's wrong with war, you say domination, not so much atrocity. But how is this for a reason to focus on atrocity? Because as we've established domination that happens in many different ways, and especially within states with rulers vis-a-vis the rules,. doesn't fighting domination become even more of a potential pretext for making more war than fighting human rights atrocities?" "It just doesn't make sense to me that we would want to accept a world in which there's a lot more war," he says.

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