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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: How to Think about the Death of Innocents in War
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, and in the context of ongoing events in Israel and Gaza, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how to think about civilian casualties in war.
Among the topics covered:
Why the brutal nature of war should not be sanitized, glamorized, or whitewashed;
Why winning requires doing everything necessary to bring an end to the enemy’s military and political leadership;
How Hamas uses its subjects as human shields, hoping to deter Israel from defending itself and turn wider opinion against Israel;
How to think about the moral and causal responsibility of civilians for th...