Avia Pasternak, "Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
b'We tend to think that states can act wrongfully, even criminally. Thus, we also tend to think that states can be\\xa0held responsible\\xa0for their acts. They can be made to pay compensation to their victims or suffer penalties with respect to their standing in the international community, and so on. The trouble, though, is that when states are held responsible, the\\xa0cost\\xa0of moral repair\\xa0is transferred to the citizens of the offending state, including citizens who\\xa0objected\\xa0to the wrongful acts, may have been\\xa0unaware of\\xa0them, or were\\xa0powerless\\xa0to prevent them. What could justify this?\\nIn\\xa0Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for their State\\u2019s Wrongdoings?\\xa0(Oxford University Press 2021),\\xa0Avia Pasternak\\xa0develops a new defense of the idea that citizens have a duty to share in the burdens of their state\\u2019s wrongdoing. However, Avia also addresses the practical moral complexities of state wrongdoing, and defends a context-sensitive framework for distributing the burden.\\n Robert Talisse\\xa0is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'