Kant forbade states to make their subjects assassins or poisoners

Evidence

“The attacked State is allowed to use any means of defense,” wrote Kant in the Doctrine of Right, “except those whose use would render its subjects unfit to be citizens… . It must accordingly be prohibited for a state to use its own subjects … as poisoners or assassins (to which class the so-called sharpshooters who wait in ambush on individual victims also belong).” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 614

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kant questioned the legal right of states to use subjects for war. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 569; A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 615; Moral limits on weapons apply only where adversaries are equals — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 339

Related

• Kant questioned the legal right of states to use subjects for war. (similarity 0.90)
• A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins (similarity 0.88)
• Political subjection commits citizens to acts they cannot foresee or control (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Moral limits on weapons apply only where adversaries are equals #complicates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 339