Defeating Wrongdoing

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چکیده

It is sometimes suggested that victims of unjust harm should take priority over other forms harm. We explore four arguments for this view: experience greater suffering; prioritizing would help prevent in the future; it good perpetrators their be prioritized; and impersonally better are prioritized. argue first three fail but fourth argument succeeds. Moral agents have a reason to prioritize wrongdoing because secures impersonal value corrective justice. However, can activated differently different depending on how they situated relative wrongdoing, may outweighed by factors, such as extent could alleviated.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Social Theory and Practice

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2154-123X', '0037-802X']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202337180