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(Created page with "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.” [https://blog.knowinghumans.net/2005/08/anti-war-libertarians-wrong-on.html] 2. Our hands should stay clean: no matter what genocide happens abroad, as long as we’re not involved, our hands a) are clean: it is not our responsibilit...") |
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#. 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.”) | |||
Revision as of 00:10, 18 May 2023
Cleanhandsitarianism, cleanhandsitarian
- . 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]
- . 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.”)
