Terrorism and Moral Condemnation

About the Book

Terrorism and Moral Condemnation: Why Indiscriminate Lethal Terrorist Acts Are Evil provides a comprehensive examination of the different kinds of arguments that are being made in attempts to justify or excuse terrorism. Many people throughout the world contend that at least some terrorist acts cannot be morally condemned for a variety of reasons (from the noble ends that terrorists are supposedly seeking to the oppressive conditions in which they have been living). Addressing each of those reasons in turn, the author explains why terrorist acts which indiscriminately cause the death of innocent noncombatants should always be called evil.

About the Author

John S. Pletz is the author of Being Ethical (Kroshka Books, 1999) and First, Do No Unjust Harm: Recognizing and Confronting Evil (University Press of America, 2003). Pletz received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. After service in the Peace Corps (in Colombia) and in the US Air Force, Pletz obtained his J.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was the Executive Director of the Missouri Elections Commission and the Deputy Secretary of State of Missouri, and for the last twenty-five years he has engaged in the private practice of law.