Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions

'Who Should Die?: The Ethics of Killing in War'. Eds.: Bradley Jay Strawser, Ryan Jenkins, Michael Robillard, Oxford University Press 2018

27 Pages Posted: 10 Jan 2018

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Saba Bazargan-Forward

UC San Diego; University of San Diego School of Law

Date Written: 2017

Abstract

In Chapter 7, “Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions”, Saba Bazargan-Forward asks How much violence can we impose on those attempting to politically subjugate us? According to Bazargan-Forward, “reductive individualism” answers this question by determining how much violence one can impose on an individual wrongly attempting to prevent one from political participation. Some have argued that the amount of violence one can permissibly impose in such situations is decidedly sub-lethal. Accordingly, this counterintuitive response has cast doubt on the reductive individualist project. Bazargan-Forward argues, however, that political subjugation involves an institutionally embodied form of disrespect that has been altogether missed. A proper appreciation of this sort of disrespect, he contends, morally permits much greater defensive violence against those attempting to politically subjugate us or others.

Keywords: just war theory, dignity, self-respect, oppression, self-defense

Suggested Citation

Bazargan-Forward, Saba, Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions (2017). 'Who Should Die?: The Ethics of Killing in War'. Eds.: Bradley Jay Strawser, Ryan Jenkins, Michael Robillard, Oxford University Press 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3097576

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University of San Diego School of Law ( email )

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