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Title: Chapter Eight: War, Terrorism and Civil Liberties


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Chapter EightWar, Terrorism and Civil Liberties
  • Applying Ethics A Text with Readings (10th ed.)
  • Julie C. Van Camp, Jeffrey Olen, Vincent Barry
  • Cengage Learning/Wadsworth

2
Just War Theory
  • Jus ad bellum proposals to justify the use of
    force in a particular type of situation
  • Jus in bello the justice of particular types of
    actions within a war, whether or not that war was
    justified
  • Aquinas influential theory of just war

3
Terminology in todays world
  • Preemptive war
  • Violence and terrorism
  • Jihadism
  • Pacifism

4
Civil Liberties
  • Security vs. safety?
  • Is the Constitution a mutual suicide pact?
  • Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution
  • First Amendment free speech, freedom of
    association, academic freedom, freedom of
    religion
  • Fourth Amendment protection against
    unreasonable searches and seizures
  • Sixth Amendment right to a speedy and public
    trial
  • Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial
  • Eighth Amendment Excessive bail shall not be
    required, nor excessive fines, nor cruel and
    unusual punishments

5
The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers
of Success)Michael Walzer
  • Survey of development of just war theory from
    Augustine to Aquinas to modern times
  • Just war has been used to justify and sometimes
    rationalize wars throughout history, by invoking
    its test of morality
  • Today, just war theory is useful to scrutinize
    and critique wars in our time

6
Violence, Terrorism, and JusticeR.G. Frey and
Christopher W. Morris
  • How should we characterize terrorism?
  • The creation of terror
  • Random use of violence
  • Targeting of innocents and noncombatants
  • How should we evaluate the wrongness of
    terrorism?
  • Consequentialist moral analysis (results)?
  • Kantian moral analysis (justice, dignity)?

7
Make Torture an OptionAlan M. Dershowitz
  • Torture When is it justified to resort to
    unconventional techniques to interrogate
    witnesses?
  • Fifth Amendment protection against
    self-incrimination does not prohibit any
    technique, if evidence is not introduced at a
    criminal trial
  • Judges should issue torture warrants so torture
    is conducted within the law

8
Torture and the Ticking BombDavid Luban
  • The ticking bomb scenario does not justify the
    use of torture to interrogate prisoners
  • The scenario is an intellectual fraud
  • We must address questions of uncertainty,
    morality of consequences, and what the practice
    of torture does to our culture
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