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Extremism and Confusion in American Views about the Ethics of War: A Comment on Sagan and Valentino
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 451-463
ISSN: 1747-7093
AbstractIn their article "Just War and Unjust Soldiers: American Public Opinion on the Moral Equality of Combatants," Scott Sagan and Benjamin Valentino have revealed a wealth of information about the views of contemporary Americans on the ethics of war. Virtually all they have discovered is surprising and much of it is alarming. My commentary in this symposium seeks mainly to extract a bit more from their data and to draw a few further inferences. Among the striking features of Sagan and Valentino's data are that the views of Americans tend to cluster at the extreme ends of the spectrum of possible views about the ethics of war, that an apparent sympathy for pacifism coexists with harshly punitive views about the treatment of soldiers, and that few of those surveyed appear to have given any thought to the implications of the views they expressed for what it might be permissible for enemies of the United States to do to captured American soldiers. The commentary concludes by arguing that Sagan and Valentino's findings do not, as they argue, support the fear that is sometimes expressed that a wider acceptance of revisionist just war theory, and in particular its incorporation into the law, would make the practice of war even more barbarous than it already is.
Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors
In: The Ethics of War, S. 3-27
What Rights May Be Defended by Means of War?
In: The Morality of Defensive War, S. 115-156
Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners
In: How We Fight, S. 104-137
Die gerechte Verteilung des Schadens zwischen Kombattanten und Nichtkombattanten
In: Den Gegner schützen?, S. 27-74
Proportionality in the Afghanistan War
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 143-154
ISSN: 1747-7093
Proportionality in the Afghanistan War
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 143-154
ISSN: 0892-6794
The Just Distribution of Harm Between Combatants and Noncombatants
In: Philosophy and public affairs, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 342-379
ISSN: 1088-4963
The Just Distribution of Harm Between Combatants and Noncombatants
In: Philosophy & public affairs, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 342-380
ISSN: 0048-3915
Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist
In: Harming Future Persons; International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, S. 49-68
Arguments for the Moral Equality of Combatants
In: Killing in War, S. 38-103
Liability and the Limits of Self‐Defense
In: Killing in War, S. 155-202
Civilian Immunity and Civilian Liability
In: Killing in War, S. 203-235