PHIL 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ahold
7 Jun 2018
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International Philosophy
Democratic Theory and Border
Coercion: Abizadeh
No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders
17 APRIL 2018
Coercion:
• Threatening people to to do something (x) that they otherwise wouldn’t do
with a significant consequence
• Prevent people from doing (x)that they otherwise would do
• Moral implications? → this doesn’t say anything yet about the
justification of coercion, right now it is neutral
What about the people in a different state? Such as Mexico
Border patrols are merely saying: we’re are merely preventing you from going past us.
We are not coercing you into doing anything (said to mexican citizens)
In terms of prevention:
We’re preventing ppl from doing (x)
• (x): going over the border → and this is something that (barring the
prevention) they would otherwise do
Maybe if the Us wasn’t economically prosperous, then maybe people wouldn’t want to
come through
Abizadeh eventually comes to say that everyone should have control over every border
in the world, so what about the people who don’t want to come into the country?
• Ppl need documentation to get in → is this coercion?not really bc they CAN have
the docummention, it’s attainable
→ documentation is still some form of coercion, bc its the governments form of
keeping track of whose in or out of the country, who’s allowed to get ahold of these
documents (we still haven’t said whether is justifiable, just trying to define whether
things count as coercion or not)
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