Humiliating Whistle-Blowers : Li Wenliang, the Response to Covid-19, and the Call for a Decent Society
The ethical experience and lessons of China's and the world's response to COVID-19 will be debated for many years to come. But one feature of the Chinese authoritarian response that should not be overlooked is its practice of silencing and humiliating the whistle-blowers who told the truth about the epidemic. In this article, we document the humiliation of Dr Li Wenliang (1986-2020), the most prominent whistle-blower in the Chinese COVID-19 epidemic. Engaging with the thought of Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit, who argues that humiliation constitutes an injury to a person's self-respect, we discuss his contention that a decent society is one that abolishes conditions which constitute a justification for its dependents to consider themselves humiliated. We explore the ways that institutions humiliate whistle-blowers in Western countries as well as in China.
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2020 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17 |
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Journal of bioethical inquiry - 17(2020), 4 vom: 25. Dez., Seite 543-547 |
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Englisch |
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Nie, Jing-Bao [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 04.01.2021 Date Revised 04.01.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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