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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Morality of Self-Defense and Innocent Deaths in War
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Ziemowit Gowin discuss the right to self-defense, deaths of innocents in war, and just war theory in the context of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
Among the topics covered:
Why the responsibility for deaths of innocents in war falls on the aggressor;
How the right to self-defense rests on the inalienable right to your own life;
How the aggressor can be morally responsible for deaths the defender caused;
How the principle of “double effect” undermines the right to self-defense.
Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s article “Innocents...