When all else fails : the ethics of resistance to state injustice / Jason Brennan.
The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their government: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is fourth option. When governments violate...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Dangerous philosophy
- Resistance : the fourth option
- Defensive ethics : the general framework
- The government authority argument for special immunity
- Other general arguments for special immunity
- Just say no : the ethics of following unjust orders
- Lying with intent to sabotage
- Vigilante justices : what judges should do in response to unjust law
- Must you resist? : some closing thoughts.