Killing Bin Laden: A Moral Analysis

Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he argues is sound: that bin Laden was liable to be killed as a necessary and proportionate act of defensive harm on behalf of innocent people.

• • Author: B. Strawser
• • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• • Publication Date: Sep 26, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 87 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137440708
• • ISBN-13: 9781137440709