Weighing unjust lives
Are the lives of those fighting on the unjust side of a war worth less than the lives of those fighting on the just side? It is tempting to answer yes. There is a powerful and popular rationale for this verdict: Things are intrinsically better when people get what they deserve. According to this vie...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1455012023-03-11T20:04:25Z Weighing unjust lives Forcehimes, Andrew T. Ohlin, Jens David May, Larry Finkelstein, Claire School of Humanities Social sciences::Political science Desert Death Are the lives of those fighting on the unjust side of a war worth less than the lives of those fighting on the just side? It is tempting to answer yes. There is a powerful and popular rationale for this verdict: Things are intrinsically better when people get what they deserve. According to this view, the goodness of a life is the product of one’s desert-adjusted welfare. In this chapter, I highlight the troubling implications that adjusting for desert has in the context of war. The implausibility of these implications calls into question the core idea of the desert-adjusted account: namely, that there is some level of welfare that each person deserves, and things would go best if everyone were at these levels. Published version 2020-12-23T04:38:51Z 2020-12-23T04:38:51Z 2017 Book Chapter Forcehimes, A. T. (2017). Weighing unjust lives. In O. Jens David, M. Larry, & F. Claire (Eds.), Weighing lives in war (pp. 284-297). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198796176.003.0013 978-0-19-879617-6 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145501 10.1093/oso/9780198796176.003.0013 en © 2017 Andrew Forcehimes. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This book is made available with permission of Andrew Forcehimes. application/pdf Oxford University Press |
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Are the lives of those fighting on the unjust side of a war worth less than the lives of those fighting on the just side? It is tempting to answer yes. There is a powerful and popular rationale for this verdict: Things are intrinsically better when people get what they deserve. According to this view, the goodness of a life is the product of one’s desert-adjusted welfare. In this chapter, I highlight the troubling implications that adjusting for desert has in the context of war. The implausibility of these implications calls into question the core idea of the desert-adjusted account: namely, that there is some level of welfare that each person deserves, and things would go best if everyone were at these levels. |
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