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Duus-Otterström, Goran and Page, Edward (2023) Defeating wrongdoing : why victims of unjust harm should take priority over victims of bad luck. Social Theory & Practice, 49 (1). pp. 57-77. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract202337180 ISSN 0037-802X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202337180
Abstract
It is sometimes suggested that victims of unjust harm should take priority over victims of other forms of harm. We explore four arguments for this view: that victims of unjust harm experience greater suffering; that prioritizing victims of unjust harm would help prevent unjust harm in the future; that it is good for perpetrators that their victims be prioritized; and that it is impersonally better that victims of unjust harm are prioritized. We argue that the first three arguments fail but that the fourth argument succeeds. Moral agents have a reason to prioritize victims of wrongdoing because this secures the impersonal value of corrective justice. However, this reason can be activated differently for different agents depending on how they are situated relative to the wrongdoing, and it may be outweighed by other factors, such as the extent of the harm that could be alleviated.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law [Moys] > KB General and Comparative Law K Law [Moys] > KM Common Law, Public Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Civil law , Justice, Causation, Criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Theory & Practice | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Florida State University * Department of Philosophy | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0037-802X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 49 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 57-77 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5840/soctheorpract202337180 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 June 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 June 2021 | ||||||||
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