Defeating Wrongdoing
Why Victims of Unjust Harm Should Take Priority over Victims of Bad Luck
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20316699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Göran Duus‐otterström (0000-0001-9133-7300), Göran Duus-Otterström, Edward A Page |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-77 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-802X • E-ISSN: 2154-123X |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/soctheorpract202337180 |
| OpenAlex | W4324277730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Argument (complex analysis) · Criminology · Economic Justice · Harm · Harm principle · Injustice · Law and economics · Political science · Restitution · Sociology · Wrongdoing · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
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Benefiting from Injustice and the Common-Source Problem
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |