Killing Bin Laden: A Moral Analysis

by Bradley Jay Strawser

Killing bin Laden: An Ethical Analysis is a short treatise on the possible ethical justification for the U.S. mission to kill Osama bin Laden. After rejecting the standard justifications most commonly used in support of the killing, Strawser ultimately argues that the killing was ethically permissible as an act of defensive harm on behalf of innocents. The book contends bin Laden was morally responsible for a collection of unjust threats such that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137440708
• ISBN13: 9781137440709
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"