Is There a Moral Transgression?

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Sally Kohn: The international laws of war and the codes of conduct are themselves creating trauma. She says that you cannot live up to what are these moral codes because they're using children, right, to fight or women hiding things under their clothes. Kohn: You perceive what you did as immoral, but in the context of warfare, it's not necessarily immoral. It could be a necessity, which is all really remarkable,. she writes.

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