{"title":"Terrorism, Innocence, and War","authors":"Robert K. Fullinwider","doi":"10.13021/G8PPPQ.212001.367","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Following the events of September 11, some have insisted that no matter what its political aims, terrorism admits of no moral justification because terrorists attack \"innocent\" victims. Terrorists contend that their human targets are not innocent--they participate in just state actions and therefore deserve punishment. But to arrive at this conclusion, terrorists must treat themselves as sovereign states authorized to make such judgments and, in the case of bin Laden and his followers, believe their judgments and actions simply follow God's will.","PeriodicalId":82464,"journal":{"name":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13021/G8PPPQ.212001.367","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Following the events of September 11, some have insisted that no matter what its political aims, terrorism admits of no moral justification because terrorists attack "innocent" victims. Terrorists contend that their human targets are not innocent--they participate in just state actions and therefore deserve punishment. But to arrive at this conclusion, terrorists must treat themselves as sovereign states authorized to make such judgments and, in the case of bin Laden and his followers, believe their judgments and actions simply follow God's will.
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