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The Bounds of Defense - Killing, Moral Responsibility, and War (Hardcover)
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The Bounds of Defense - Killing, Moral Responsibility, and War (Hardcover)
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Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally
wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people
similarly believe that war, while awful, can be justified. Bradley
Jay Strawser examines a set of related moral issues in war: when it
is permissible to kill in defense of others; what moral
responsibility would be required to be liable for such defensive
killing; how that permission can extend to whole groups of people;
and, lastly, what values undergird the permissibility of that
defense, such as individual autonomy. Strawser argues for a
rights-based account of permissible defensive harm and an
'evidence-relative' basis for the holding those responsible. His
view is that in order to be properly responsible for an unjust harm
to be justifiably killed, one must act wrongly according to the
evidence available to them. Extending this view, Strawser explores
how such a rights-based model can make sense of the wide-spread
destructive harms of war. He endorses a revisionist approach to
just war theory and argues in its defense; and he also shows how
his evidence-relative account supports revisionist just war theory
by better grounding it in the real world of modern warfare. Lastly,
he offers a new proposal for how targeting in war could better
align with respect for the rights of individual persons, and
demonstrate how revisionist just war theory-and any
rights-respecting just war account more broadly-could conceivably
work in practical ways.
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