45 - Humane War feat. Samuel Moyn
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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Humanitarianism
The pacifism viewpoint are these peace mongers. They say, don't do war. It's bad. Bad things happen. Then there's another approach to war, which is called humanitarianism. And it really comes from the response of one man, Swiss, you know, gentlemen named Ali Duno to a battlefield he ran across in the 1860s. He was so horrified that he decided to see if he could get states to agree to let like do gooders like him helped soldiers bleeding out on battlefields. The Red Cross was born.
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