The Crime of Self‐Solicitation |
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| Authors: | Benjamin Sachs |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United KingdomI am grateful to Sari Kisilevsky, Hallie Liberto, Alan Wertheimer, Paul Van Rooy, Robert Jones, Geoffrey Stone, and an anonymous referee for Ratio Juris for providing comments on a previous draft, and Phoebe Stone for providing comments on two previous drafts. Also, I would like to thank Phoebe Stone, Hallie Liberto, Geoffrey Stone, Andy Sachs, Alan Wertheimer, Molly Gardner, and Fiona Woollard for helpful conversation on the topic. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 4th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. |
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| Abstract: | I hold that we could justifiably criminalize some threats, on account of the fact that issuing them renders one more likely to commit a crime. But I also point out that if we criminalize some threat‐issuing, we will de facto criminalize some warning‐issuing, which is unjust. So we ought not to criminalize any threat‐issuing. Instead, we should criminalize (roughly) rendering oneself more likely to commit a crime. This would allow us to punish all the threat‐issuers we should want to punish. It would also force us to punish some warning‐issuers, but we would not be punishing them for their warning‐issuing. |
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