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Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 05-05-1993, Wendy J. Gordon May 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 05-05-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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Blackmail commentary continues to multiply. The purpose of this paper is to show what we agree on. Its primary tool will be to define what I call the "central case" of the blackmail literature, and to supply the connecting links that will allow us to see how the various theories converge where central-case blackmail is involved. Among other things, I will show how the deontological and consequentialist (economic) approaches converge in condemning central-case blackmail, and I will defend the criminalization of such blackmail.


Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 1/11/1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 1/11/1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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Blackmail commentary continues to multiply. The purpose of this paper is to show what we agree on. Its primary tool will be to define what I call the "central case" of the blackmail literature, and to supply the connecting links that will allow us to see how the various theories converge where central-case blackmail is involved. Among other things, I will show how the deontological and consequentialist (economic) approaches converge in condemning central-case blackmail, and I will defend the criminalization of such blackmail.


Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 01-10-1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 01-10-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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The doctrine of double effect (DDE) and my suggested correlative, the doctrine of single effect (DSE), suggest that no significance should be given to either the lawful nature of the threat or the potentially beneficial side-effects of blackmail. Under DSE, the blackmailer violates deontological constraints if he threatens disclosure in an intent to obtain money or other advantage because, inter alia, were he to have alternative threats available he would threaten anyway. The nature of the threat is outside the intent of the blackmailer in the same way the killing of civilians is outside the intent of the strategic bomber. …


Truth And Consequences - Draft - 01-07-1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences - Draft - 01-07-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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Rather, he seeks to extract something from the victim that is properly the victim's, usually money, or to make the victim do something (e.g., sleep with him) that is ordinarily a behavior that the victim is at liberty not to engage in. The missing "rights" that Murphy seeks are therefore present and fairly uncontroversial: the rights not to have one's goods intentionally taken, or have one's liberty intentionally infringed, without justification. It is irrelevant whether or not it would be proper for the blackmailer to disclose the information, and thus destroy something the victim may value at a price even …


Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 01-04-1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail's Central Case - Draft - 01-04-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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Blackmail commentary continues to multiply. The purpose of this paper is to show what we agree on. Its primary tool will be to define what I call the "central case" of the blackmail literature, and to supply the connecting links that will allow us to see how the various theories converge where central-case blackmail is involved. Among other things, I will show how the deontological and consequentialist (economic) approaches converge in condemning central-case blackmail, and I will defend the criminalization of such blackmail.


Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail - Outline - 01-02-1993, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1993

Truth And Consequences: The Force Of Blackmail - Outline - 01-02-1993, Wendy J. Gordon

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This paper: To show what we agree on by explication of the deontologic justification for blackmail prohibitions. In the process· to make the deontologic nature of bmail clearer; to show how the deont & consequentialist approaches agree on the central case; to defend the criminaliz of the central case in liberal (non-libertarian) terms; to provide some tentative observations on the non-central cases