Conversation Rules with Phillip Larsen

Episode 5: Refugees and Genocide

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Millennials and generational studies.

 

Apple and the FBI

 

Libel Laws and Trump

 

 

Declaration of Genocide, Just War, Refugees, Radicals, and the

Christian response

  • State department finally declaring genocide
    • Criticism is justified. Genocide should have been declared a
      • year ago.
    • The denying of refugees
      • People have been crying foul about ISIS since the start…but
        • when it comes to actual action its: whoa, whoa, whoa…we need to be
        cautious.
      • Just war
        • The Right to go to war.
          • Is war justified?
            • Self-Defense
            • The Right conduct in war.
              • Is the conduct done within the conflict moral
              • Our military is made up of some of the greatest
                • people…therefore we need to be extra cautious on sending them to
                every conflict.
              • War is a pro-life issue
                • Not about ISIS. Honestly, I don’t care about ISIS.
                • It is the collateral damage.
                  • Today’s orphan is tomorrow’s radical.
                    • Especially when we seemingly indiscriminately bomb certain
                      • areas with flying robots.
                    • Undeclared genocide
                      • World history is littered with “undeclared genocide”.
                        • We tend to destroy the things that threaten our perceived
                          • power.
                        • The legacy of invisible children.
                        • If we are against evil, are we against evil everywhere.
                          • Central and western Africa in in constant ebbs and flows of
                            • genocide, yet there are no public hearings addressing that.
                          • This isn’t call of duty. Calling for “carpet bombing” and
                            • “seeing if the sand can glow”, and “knocking the hell out of ISIS”
                            is going to cost people their lives…and not just the perpetraitors.
                            American blood will be spilled.
                          • Percentages of Americans who have served.
                            • ~1.4 million people serving in the military. In a country of
                              • ~350 million, that equals ~0.4%.
                              • Compare that to ~24% of men who served in WWII
                              • We ask an awful lot from a scant few of the population.
                              • The decisions we are making have no tangible consequence to our
                                • lives, because chances are, we know very few people who will have
                                to sacrifice.
                              • We are to love our enemies:
                                • What does that mean?
                                  • Talking about loving our enemies is easy when it’s Bob from
                                    • accounting who doesn’t like the way you dress.
                                  • What about ISIS?
                                  • Seeing Christ move in the despondency.
                                  • Just like today’s orphan is tomorrow’s radical, today’s refugee
                                    • has the potential to be tomorrow’s brother.
                                    • Not going to start the conversation if they treated as pariahs
                                      • before the conversation even starts.
                                      • Hence the importance of moderating our words when talking about
                                        • Muslims and refugees.
                                      • The danger of straw man arguments, where we set up a caricature
                                        • of a people group, and then pass it off as reality (i.e. all
                                        Muslims are terrorists)
                                      • The risk of dying from the sword isn’t a new proposition.
                                        • Do we idolize our carnal security?
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