Ep 220: Marc LiVecche on Hiroshima and Morality

Marc LiVecche, McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence and author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury, joins the show to discuss Just War Theory and whether the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fit in that framework. 

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Times

    •      01:23 Introduction

    •      01:30 Misspent youth

    •      07:51 Moral injury   

    •      13:27 Conflicting views

    •      19:15 Richard Frank       

    •      28:53 Right not moral     

    •      39:12 Not the same

    •      40:36 Gifts from heaven

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