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1. Our hands are not clean enough: “America does not have clean enough hands at home or in the past abroad to try to increase liberty by force abroad now, even by toppling a murderous aggressor.” [https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2005/08/anti-war-libertarians-wrong-on.html]
# Our hands are not clean enough: “America does not have clean enough hands at home or in the past abroad to try to increase liberty by force abroad now, even by toppling a murderous aggressor.” [https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2005/08/anti-war-libertarians-wrong-on.html]
# Our hands should stay clean: no matter what genocide happens abroad, as long as we’re not involved, our hands
## are clean: it is not our responsibility if people are dying, even if we could stop it at no cost, our hands are clean as we're not killing anyone ourselves and
## should stay clean: it’s not our responsibility to stop it, in particular if doing so would incur a risk of getting our hands dirty (see: [[WhiteGloveItarianism]]: “If a policy is likely to result in the death of even a single innocent, then that policy is immoral no matter how much it otherwise increases human liberty, or how much one attempts to avoid such deaths.”)


2. Our hands should stay clean: no matter what genocide happens abroad, as long as we’re not involved, our hands
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a) are clean: it is not our responsibility if people are dying, even if we could stop it at no cost) and
b) should stay clean: it’s not our responsibility to stop it, in particular if doing so would incur a risk of getting our hands dirty (see: WhiteGloveItarianism: “If a policy is likely to result in the death of even a single innocent, then that policy is immoral no matter how much it otherwise increases human liberty, or how much one attempts to avoid such deaths.”)

Latest revision as of 23:19, 23 April 2024

Cleanhandsitarianism, cleanhandsitarian

  1. Our hands are not clean enough: “America does not have clean enough hands at home or in the past abroad to try to increase liberty by force abroad now, even by toppling a murderous aggressor.” [1]
  2. Our hands should stay clean: no matter what genocide happens abroad, as long as we’re not involved, our hands
    1. are clean: it is not our responsibility if people are dying, even if we could stop it at no cost, our hands are clean as we're not killing anyone ourselves and
    2. should stay clean: it’s not our responsibility to stop it, in particular if doing so would incur a risk of getting our hands dirty (see: WhiteGloveItarianism: “If a policy is likely to result in the death of even a single innocent, then that policy is immoral no matter how much it otherwise increases human liberty, or how much one attempts to avoid such deaths.”)
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