E64: The Morality of War w/ Dr. Robert George

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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When is it moral to wage war? Should Israel have invaded Gaza? What is a war crime and why does it matter? Today I talk with Dr. Robert George about Just War Theory. Dr. George is known for his work serving on the Present's Council of Bioethics, teaching jurisprudence at Princeton, and authoring over a dozen books. We talked about the morality of war, the ethics of the atom bomb in WWII, and what actions are justifiable in the current Israel/Gaza war.

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0:00.0	Israel cannot make as the object of its act the revenge of simply killing innocent people to make up for the killing of their innocent people.
0:11.6	Hey guys welcome back to the Lila Rose Podcast.
0:14.8	Today we're going to be exploring some big questions.
0:17.6	Is war just?
0:19.2	Is any war just?
0:21.2	What would make a war just or unjust? What is a war crime? If a civilian dies, an innocent
0:28.1	civilian dies in war, is that always a war crime?
0:33.0	What about the Israeli-Gazah conflict?
0:35.0	What about the accusations coming from both sides
0:38.0	that war crimes are being committed?
0:40.0	We're going to explore these questions and more in this very important episode with Dr. Robert
0:45.9	George. Dr. Robert George is a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and has been there for several
0:52.0	decades. He's also an ethicist, a bioethicist, and has
0:55.2	served on the President's Council of Bioethics. He has written multiple books and has
0:59.6	been a scholar that has
1:05.0	worked carefully on moral issues.
1:06.0	He's someone that I admire for a lot of his work in the pro-life movement,
1:07.0	and he has worked carefully on the just war issue,
1:10.0	exploring how do we as Christians think about war and how does any person of goodwill
1:16.8	and reason think about war especially in this era of modern warfare with
1:21.8	atomic weapons and nuclear weapons and urban warfare.
1:25.3	Did you know that most of the meat in the grocery store is not from the USA even if it says
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