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Jonathan Glover (1941- )

Jonathan Glover (1941- ). Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College London. (Photo from his website: http://jonathanglover.co.uk/). Russell Quotation in Glover.

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Jonathan Glover (1941- )

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  1. Jonathan Glover (1941- ) Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College London. (Photo from his website: http://jonathanglover.co.uk/)

  2. Russell Quotation in Glover • The question of the rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally considered from a juridical or quasi-juridical standpoint: so and so broke such and such a treaty, crossed such and such a frontier, committed such and such technically unfriendly acts, and therefore by the rules it is permissible to kill as many of his nation as modern armaments render possible. There is a certain unreality, a certain lack of imaginative grasp about this way of viewing matters. It has the advantage, always dearly prized by lazy men, of substituting a formula, at once ambiguous and easily applied, for the vital realization of the consequences of acts. • Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): “The Ethics of War”, lnternationalJoumal of Ethics, 1915 • (Photo from Nobel Prize Website - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/russell.jpg)

  3. The point of using this quotation is • A. to emphasize that killing in wartime is morally no different than killing in peacetime. • B. to emphasize that killing is something that should be decided by judiciaries and politicians. • C. to indicate that we need to punish states that violate international treaties and that this sometimes justifies wars.

  4. Some Relevant Figures Regarding Iraq: • Civilian deaths counted directly: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ • Civilian deaths by comparing mortality: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11107739 • An overview of options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War • Coalition casualties: http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx • US wounded: http://icasualties.org/Iraq/USCasualtiesByState.aspx • Contractors: http://icasualties.org/Iraq/Contractors.aspx • Costs: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf • Costs estimated differently: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html

  5. Homework due in sections this week. • 1. Look up and quote the relevant language about plagiarism from the student code of conduct. Bring it with you to sections. • 2. Have a look at the graduate studies website page on plagiarism at http://www.unl.edu/gradstudies/current/plagiarism#about (It is better than the undergrad page on related topics, though it too has a few things I’d quibble about, specifically what it says about “interpretations” as opposed to common knowledge – common knowledge should just be contrasted with not common knowledge.) • 3. Write a 1 page paper or paper fragment about whatever you want. Violate the rules (two different ones) about plagiarism twice in that page. In other words commit two different kinds of plagiarism in that one page. Then write up the same page with the citations and quotations done correctly.

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