Dr. J. Budziszewski
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Yeah, there are amazing things, amazing things.
It's not just about sex.
A student last year, I used to teach a course on religion and politics and American thought from the colonies to the culture wars.
There was a unit on just war in the course.
Yeah, good.
And I was explaining the discrimination principle, which means that you can't
Look, collateral damage, so-called collateral damage, unintended harm to noncombatants.
Right.
There you have to weigh things.
But there is an absolute prohibition on deliberately targeting noncombatants.
People say terrorism is just a freedom fighter by another name.
No, this is terrorism.
That's not freedom fighting, okay?
And as an example, I gave the Hamas attacks on October 7th.
And I thought, this should be pretty obvious.
I said, look, you know, you're raping women.
You're driving nails into them.
You're bayoneting or stabbing, anyway.
I don't know if they use bayonets.
Babies.