180319 Ethics Culture and Dancing boys / Abuse of Children
Lecture Coates
ethical relativism
different culture have different ethics
and both sides think they are right
is the argument that a central government has signed a convention mean that internal groups are bound/will be bound by it ❓
does the reason why the agreement is signed matter ❓ ie look good internationally? gain something else?
dancing boys
banned by Taliban and Afghan law
orphans or sold by poor families
Jason Blain COL post AFG deployment
force protection v ethical issues
line between acting and being complicit?
so what are the second order effects of preventing a coalition partner acting in ways that are ethically unacceptable to you
education
rule of law: to coalition partners
drugs
prevelent within Afghan culture
what are the effects of destroying drug producing crops on a cooperative partnership
so cultural training necessary
directed to stop dancing boys in AO
but
what costs to operational outcomes
potential security cost to own personnel
how
would act as CO?
how would you prepare your people?