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Cecile Fabre on the Ethics of Spying

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Are We Morally Permitted and Obliged to Do Under Conditions of Uncertainty?

There is a growing in philosophy on the question of what we are morally and ar obliged to do under conditions of uncertainty. There's also another element to this, which is particularly acute in cases of spying. Everybody's acting in conditions of extreme uncertainty - it's not as if we really know what the likely consequences are with any certainty. So actually the task is twofold: What are acceptable risks and what counts as a morally excitable course of action in the face of those risks? The second task is whether or not that account so developed, works in the specific contexts in which we operate.

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