TY - JOUR
AU1 - Tweedy Flanigan, Edmund
AB - Acts of futile resistance—harms against an aggressor which could not reasonably hope to avert the threat the aggressor poses—give rise to a puzzle: on the one hand, many such acts are intuitively permissible, yet on the other, these acts fail to meet the justificatory standards of defensive action. The most widely accepted solution to this puzzle is that victims in such cases permissibly defend against a secondary threat to their honour, dignity, or moral standing. I argue that this solution fails, because futile resistance is not plausibly regarded as defensive in the relevant sense. I propose instead that futile resistance is justified as a form of protest, where protest is analysed as an expression of rejection of victims’ wrongs. Such protest is justified, I argue, when and because it is the fitting response to the circumstances of futility.
TI - Futile Resistance as Protest
JF - Mind
DO - 10.1093/mind/fzad015
DA - 2023-06-11
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/futile-resistance-as-protest-V3pFegAxbR
SP - 631
EP - 658
VL - 132
IS - 527
DP - DeepDyve
ER -