PHIL 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Whistleblower
30 Aug 2018
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Wednesday, august 23, 2017 whistleblowing meeting all five conditions is a form of "minimally decent samaritanism. Paradox of burden whistleblowing is generally costly to the whistleblower in some large way as this, the standard theory"s minimally decent samaritanism provides no justification for the central cases of whistleblowing. Paradox of missing harm there is a limit to how much the standard theory can stretch. Paradox of failure whistle blowers are understood as people out to prevent harm, not just to prevent moral wrong, their chances of success are not good whistle blowers generally do not prevent much harm. Any complicity theory of justified whistleblowing has two obvious advantages over the standard theory. 1. (moral) complicity itself presupposes (moral) wrongdoing, not harm.
