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Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action, 2010, p.165
Ort / Verlag
Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
I want to think about the prison abuses committed in Abu Ghraib during the U.S. military counter-insurgency in the Iraq War of 2003 to 2005 within the framework of ordinary ethics.¹ In some ways this is easier said than done, not least because there was hardly anything “ordinary” about what is alleged to have transpired behind the walls of Abu Ghraib. Yet we must be mindful that those who committed acts we might call evil were, by and large, ordinary men and women in the U.S. armed services who were thrown into extraordinary circumstances. By stressing this, I by no