Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a
ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public
policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in
self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia
and killings carried out by private military contractors and
so-called 'foreign fighters'. Where most approaches to these issues
begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to
ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy
decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a
recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political
liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to
respect citizens' right to life and the principle of liberal
neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows
that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness
test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what
he calls the 'risk of harm principle'. The book also explores the
question of what measures citizens and other states might
legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement
morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings.
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