Volume 26, Number 3
February 2024
DISCUSSION

Privileged Citizens and the Right to Riot: A Reply to Pasternak

Volume 26, Number 3, February 2024, Pages 633–640
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v26i3.3086
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Abstract

Avia Pasternak’s account of permissible political rioting includes a constraint that insists only oppressed citizens, and not privileged citizens, are permitted to riot when rioting is justified. This discussion note argues that Pasternak’s account, with which I largely agree, should be expanded to admit the permissibility of privileged citizens rioting alongside and in solidarity with oppressed citizens. The permissibility of privileged citizens participating in riots when rioting is justified is grounded in the notions that it is sometimes necessary, in accordance with Pasternak’s necessity condition, and that it will oftentimes substantially improve the chances of successfully achieving the just aims the rioting seeks to achieve, in accordance with Pasternak’s success condition. Allowing for this improves Pasternak’s already strong account of permissible political rioting on its own terms.
Copyright © 2024 Thomas Carnes
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