The Arms Trade and the Slave Trade |
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Authors: | Leslie Stevenson |
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Institution: | University of St Andrews, Fife, UK |
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Abstract: | We have abandoned the slave trade, and come to abhor it. Could the same happen with the arms trade? Even if we are not pacifists, and allow some use of force in self-defence, we must have serious ethical questions to ask about the trade in weaponry on which our economies are now so dependent. I distinguish the various forms these questions take for governments and individuals, and argue for some answers. |
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