The Paris Attack Terrorist

The New York Times article that I have chosen to speak about in this paper was reported on November 19th, 2015. The article is about the Paris Attack Terrorist, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed in a shootout. Abdelhamid Abaaoud had been planning the terror attack eleven month prior to the attacks in Paris. Abdelhamid Abaaoud was to believe to a part of multiple of other planned terror attacks that were foiled times before. The article retells of his escape from central intelligence and his belief on the terror attacks. This article points to an issue of moral concern if violence should be used and would it make it morally ethic. The ethical theories I have chosen to apply to the current event are Virtue Ethics and Prima Facie Ethics.

Virtue
Ross’s top duty is Non-injury and he believes that this duty, not to harm others physically or psychologically is important. Abdelhamid does not care for the human duties, especially the non injury. By bombing and harming health, security and happiness destroy people's duties. Ross would say that the action to kill Abdelhamid is the harm prevention duty. By preventing harm to others and protecting others from further non injury can be outweigh the other Prima Facie duties. Ross’s views is similar to how Peter Singer feels about civil disobedience and
Terror is a tactic to bully and harm innocent bystanders to portray a message of pure hate. This issue of terrorisms affects me greatly because my best friend is of French Descent. She had grown up in Paris and spoke of its beauty and community. Her children are my daughter’s friends and even though they are too young to comprehend the action that has happened it affects their morality. By killing Abdelhamid Abaaoud it sends the children a message that fighting terror with more killing is the answer. As much as I am disgusted with the terror attack I do not believe that more killing is the answer to the problem of terrorism. Although learning his history, his belief in the attacks and how proud he felt my stand on killing him still applies. He should have been punished in a different way, a way where he could suffer and know what he had done to innocent families and people.

The best ethical theory is for this would be Ross’s Prima Facie Duties. If everyone followed the Prima Facie duties and obeyed the top hierarchy duty of non injury it could lead to the other duties. If we can protect the world and followed our duties at first glance. As a world and allies we should not inflict injury to our fellow man. The act of killing Abdelhamid would fall under the category of Harm prevention. Singer and Ross would agree that prevent tyranny for Paris or Isis is the moral correct thing for