I try to flee, but tripping over a gun that someone has carelessly left lying on the pavement, I fall to the ground.
As a predictable result, a passerby reasonably though mistakenly believes that I pose a threat to the lives of others, and he reaches for his gun. On a dare, I strap a fake bomb onto my torso and pretend to be a suicide bomber. To give one a sense of how varied these stories are, here is a second example. Telling stories is the first part of his foundations enterprise. Rescuer chooses to save the five lives, and so Victim dies as a foreseen consequence of being struck by the trolley. This is the case in which five lives are threatened by a runaway trolley and the only way someone (call her "Rescuer") can save those lives is to push a very large man ("Victim") off a bridge and onto the tracks below so that the trolley will strike him and, as a consequence of the drag created by the enormous bulk of his body, come to a stop before it reaches the five. One of the stories he tells is a version of one that Judith Jarvis Thomson gave us long ago. His way begins by telling scores of trolley-like stories. Thankfully, however, Draper has a highly stylized way of building foundations so it is relatively easy to tell what he is up to. Indeed, the foundations he cites are so extensive that they take up more than half of his book. So he feels compelled to develop the foundations for such talk. Rights-talk is more complicated than, for example, utility-talk. He wants to undo this neglect mainly because rights-talk is less vague and so has a tendency to give us all more precise and demanding guidance as to what we should and should not do when it comes to war.īut Draper has a problem. When it comes to discussing the ethics of war, he believes that that concept has been much neglected. Traditional theory has its virtues but "some of its basic principles are little more than vague aphorisms, and others are simply mistaken." (2) His theory, as his title makes clear, would feature the concept of (individual) rights. Kai Draper wants very much to present a new version of just war theory.
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