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Pogge, poverty, and war

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  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

    (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

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According to Thomas Pogge, rich people do not simply violate a positive duty of assistance to help the global poor; rather, they violate a negative duty not to harm them. They do so by imposing an unjust global economic structure on poor people. Assuming that these claims are correct, it follows that, ceteris paribus , wars waged by the poor against the rich to resist this imposition are morally equivalent to wars waged in self-defense against military aggression. Hence, if self-defense against military aggression is just, then, ceteris paribus , so are defensive wars against the imposition of economic injustice. While I do not think Pogge’s analysis of the causes of global poverty is correct, I defend these inferences against various challenges.

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  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, 2017. "Pogge, poverty, and war," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 16(4), pages 446-469, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:16:y:2017:i:4:p:446-469
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X17701388
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    1. Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper, 2015. "Are Enabling and Allowing Harm Morally Equivalent?," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(3), pages 365-383, September.
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