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    Is there a justifiable shoot-to-kill policy?
    In Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney & Aaron Winter (eds.), Discourses and Practices of Terrorism, Routledge. 2010.
    I begin by contending that an absolute prohibition to avoid resorting to shoot-to-kill, under any circumstances, does not adequately address the considerable negative consequences that could follow. In opening up the question for debate, I seek to alert us to the risks of moral corruption in both thought and practice, but I do not take these to be unassailable. Next, I pose a set of questions in order to interrogate unsafe assumptions and to disambiguate critical language in the shoot-to-kill sc…Read more
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    Why Shouldn't I Lie? Ten Preliminaries
    Ethical Record 116 (10): 6-10. 2011.
    I introduce the reader to the character and complexity of lying, in terms of how the lie should be defined as a particular type of intentionally deceptive utterance, whether or not the deceiver succeeded in that aim, and examine how we might usefully avoid prejudging the justifiability of the lying utterance when compared to alternative forms of intentional deception and the overall outcome sought.