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On Complicity and Compromise (Paperback)
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'Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their
governments.' 'Corporations are complicit in human rights abuses
perpetrated by their suppliers.' 'Aid workers who compromise with
militias are complicit in their reign of terror.' We hear such
allegations all the time. Yet there are many ways of being mixed up
with the wrongdoing of others. They are not all on a par, morally;
some are worse than others. Furthermore, complicitly contributing
to wrongdoing, while still wrong in itself, might nonetheless be
the right thing to do if that is the only way to achieve some
greater good. Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and
on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical
services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin untangle
the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity: carefully
cataloguing their many varieties; identifying the dimensions along
which those differ; and explaining why some are morally more
worrying than others. Lepora and Goodin summarize their analysis in
a formula that can be used as a decision heuristic for assessing
any given act of complicity. They go on to illustrate its practical
usefulness by applying it first to some stylized philosophical
examples and then, in a more sustained way, to two vexing cases of
complicity in the real world: the complicity of humanitarian aid
organizations with genocidaires controlling Rwandan refugee camps;
and the complicity of physicians treating patients who are being
subjected to torture. Both rigorous and rooted, this is a book for
philosophers and practitioners alike.
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