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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 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 | # 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 | ## 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.”) | ## 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 00:11, 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.”)
