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What are the economic death tolls of wars? It seems like those should be included. Moreover, it's kind of consequentialist morality ignores the distinction of
by s1artibartfast 9mo ago
What are the economic death tolls of wars? It seems like those should be included.
Moreover, it's kind of consequentialist morality ignores the distinction of active harm versus failure to Aid.
This should play a role when one considers something an attack or weapon.
Is less than maximal charity an attack?
Is it an attack when someone refuses to sleep with someone else?
Norms around choice versus entitlement distinguish the two.
- jpster 9mo agoIf I blockade you in your house, is that failure to aid? Or something else? Sanctions occur via commission, not omission. They’re not a failure to render aid or to be maximally charitable. They’re active harm.
- s1artibartfast 9mo agoBlockade and sanctions are entirely different. Sanctions are omission, blockade is comission. These words are currently being conflated.
- jpster 9mo ago> International sanctions are restrictions on international transactions imposed by governments in pursuit of foreign policy objectives. Imposing a restriction where one did not previously exist is quite obviously a commission.
- s1artibartfast 9mo agoIf I decide to stop buying bread from the baker in boycott, is that a commission? It is certainly a change of state, but the status quo does not entitle ongoing purchases. This is a sanction. I can also extend this boycott to anyone else who shops at the baker. That still is not a commission. It is a refusal to interact. A blockade is different. It is a threat to use force for disobedience. IF I threaten to beat other who willingly shop at the baker.
- jpster 9mo agoDisagree