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A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

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A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

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About Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover (; born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his books and studies on ethics. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London. Glover is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in the United States, and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.