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The Morality of Treason
Law and Philosophy ( IF 0.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-26 , DOI: 10.1007/s10982-020-09392-5
Cécile Fabre

Treason is one of the most serious legal offences that there are, in most if not all jurisdictions. Laws against treason are rooted in deep-seated moral revulsion about acts which, in the political realm, are paradigmatic examples of breaches of loyalty. Yet, it is not altogether clear what treason consists in: someone’s traitor is often another’s loyalist. In this paper, my aim is twofold: to offer a plausible conceptual account of treason, and to partly rehabilitate traitors. I focus on informational treason, as the act of passing secret intelligence to foreign actors without authorization. I argue that informational treason is sometimes justified, indeed morally mandatory; even when it is morally wrong, its beneficiaries are sometimes justified, indeed obliged, to make use of the intelligence thereby provided.

中文翻译:

叛国的道德

叛国罪是最严重的法律犯罪之一,在大多数(如果不是所有)司法管辖区都有。反叛国的法律植根于对行为的根深蒂固的道德反感,在政治领域,这些行为是违反忠诚的典型例子。然而,叛国罪是什么并不完全清楚:某人的叛徒往往是另一个人的忠诚者。在这篇论文中,我的目标有两个:对叛国罪提供一个合理的概念解释,并部分地让叛徒改过自新。我专注于信息叛国,即未经授权将秘密情报传递给外国演员的行为。我认为信息叛国有时是合理的,实际上在道德上是强制性的;即使在道德上是错误的,其受益人有时也有理由,实际上有义务利用由此提供的情报。
更新日期:2020-06-26
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