Political subjection commits citizens to acts they cannot foresee or control

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 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them; A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 615; Excessive legal rigidity aimed at mistrust produces misgovernment — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 131 (+3 more)

Related

• A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins (similarity 0.93)
• Kant forbade states to make their subjects assassins or poisoners (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #corroborates (0.85)
• A state may not order acts that transform citizens into assassins #qualifies (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 615