315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The Importance of Mercy in War
"I'm actually morally opposed to rules of war," he says. "It's like marching in straight lines until somebody does exactly what I want them to do." The tit for tat is natural law, and even Leviticus endorses it, but then we have these things like leniency that isn't real mercy because it's transactional. Right. This is why if you do something evil, something taboo, we have to counter that by doing something good,. Or at least make you suffer.
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