The ethics of defensive killing
If the government can’t make a full accounting to its people why it is killing on their behalf, it cannot kill morally.
Source: Is Obama’s Drone War Moral? – The Atlantic
Is it morally justified for a government to carry out a policy of targeted killings against proposed threats where we don’t know what the policy is, we don’t know who the targets are, we don’t know what the criteria for the targets are, what evidence they have to carry it out, and what their standards are?
– Sari Kisilevsky, philosopher of law and ethics at Queens College, CUNY