Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

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Summary:

"In this passionate and tightly argued monograph, Marc Crépon makes a case against what he calls ‘murderous consent,’ by which he means the often tacit assent to killing or letting die other human beings, for instance in war or in the everyday famine that characterizes globalization today....

The overall argument of his book could be summarized by saying that, de jure, the obligation of ‘living-with’ — namely, to let others live, and prohibit murder absolutely — is universally human, but de facto, it is violated by all kinds of rationalizations and forms of identity that restrict its scope. The task then is to highlight the merely factual, strategic or pragmatic nature of these justifications for consenting to murder. But Crépon does not make things easy for himself, for he accepts that the violations of the de jure obligation are “an unavoidable feature of our way of living in and sharing the world” (6). This entails that no one is safe and no one is innocent. And it imposes on us the theoretical duty to sort through and distinguish various degrees of participation in murderous consent, from willful ignorance, neglect, or indifference in the face of famine or war, to active and hateful participation in killing...."

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consent harm harm.self consent.presumed consent.fictitious crime death murder

Date tagged:

03/25/2020, 14:24

Date published:

03/25/2020, 10:24