A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins

Evidence

The underlying idea is that what a state can make its subjects do is limited by what that would make them become. Whatever we are made to do makes us what we are, but some metamorphoses are forbidden to a state. Kant declares that a state does not have the right to turn its own citizens into assassins. Combatants, yes; assassins, no. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 615

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kant forbade states to make their subjects assassins or poisoners — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 614; Refusing to kill is about what one becomes, not what one ought to do; Political subjection commits citizens to acts they cannot foresee or control

Related

• Political subjection commits citizens to acts they cannot foresee or control (similarity 0.93)
• Kant forbade states to make their subjects assassins or poisoners (similarity 0.88)
• Kant questioned the legal right of states to use subjects for war. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Kant forbade states to make their subjects assassins or poisoners #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 614
• Refusing to kill is about what one becomes, not what one ought to do #expands (0.70)