Exam 20: Symbolic Protest and Calculated Silence

Which of the following is a deontological duty that Hill believes is adequate to justify protesting injustice?

Which of the following is NOT a feature of the kind of protest of injustice that Hill discusses?

Genuine protest, as Hill describes it, is always an overt, public action.

Hill thinks that protesting injustice, according to certain familiar deontological principles, is morally ________:

Hill agrees that when one associates with wrongdoers one becomes guilty for their wrongdoing.

Thomas E. Hill's goal is to show that there are plausible deontological principles that require one to protest injustice, even when doing so achieves little to nothing. Briefly explain Hill's view. Next, explain why someone might think that you shouldn't protest in such cases-or, at least, that you aren't obligated to protest in those cases. Which position do you find most compelling? Why?

Which of the following is the moral framework Hill is most interested in exploring?

Hill appeals to Kant's view about the morality of disassociation where what's important is that the protestor does what?

According to Hill, protest is always a part of dissociating oneself from a corrupt group.

Which of the following moral frameworks does Hill explicitly and deliberately set aside in his discussion?

Hill thinks that certain familiar deontological principles may ________ complicity with people who perpetrate injustice.

The reason Thomas E. Hill offers for the duty to dissociate from corrupt individuals and groups is that not disassociating makes you indiscriminate and weakens your association with the good. This assumes that associating with a person or group involves identifying with their values. Do you grant that assumption? Why or why not?

Thomas E. Hill discusses utilitarian and deontological views about protesting injustice. He does not discuss virtue ethics, although he does say that the people you associate with are related to what sort of person you are. What virtue might you be exercising in protesting injustice, or, what vice could you be displaying in failing to do so? Do you find a virtue-based approach helpful? Why or why not?