PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visible Minority, If And Only If
17 Apr 2016
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Textbook: contemporary debates in applied ethics, cohen and wellman (eds. ) (wiley. Premise military intervention is permissible if: hi is never permissible against legit. state, there is a just cause (397, hi is permitted against illegitimate state if (ie. genocide, violation to human right) There is a supreme humanitarian crisis: it satisfies the proportionality test. Benefit outweighs the cost establishing a legitimate state: the interveners attempt to. There is a visible minority that wants to. Notes mitigate harm: tesson"s act utilitarian create their own state by secession (414, vossen"s rule utilitarian. Morally right iff obeying a good moral. States have a moral right to defend their people from harmful attacks. outweigh the bad consequences (1) rule that leads to good consequences. National borders lack moral significance where a state"s right to protect people from harmful attacks is concerned. (3) Therefore, states have a moral right to defend members of other states from harmful attacks.
