ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book concludes by arguing that the possibility of any ethical action is underpinned by the notion of double effect; the actor aims toward a positive intention, but risks a myriad of unintended and unforeseeable negative impacts in the pursuit. Walzer's understanding of a justifiable war is underpinned by the notion of double effect: those responding to aggression or acts that shock the moral conscience aim toward a desirable effect, a just resolution, but achieves result by the horrific consequences of war. In contrast to Walzer's taming of uncertainty, an appeal to justice, ethics as response maintains a conception of responsibility in which the possibility of justice is definitively precluded. Dan Bulley presents the mythological narrative of Sisyphus's punishment as an allegory for Derridean ethics. The ethics proposes that non-Iraqis remain invested in the lives of Iraqi people: their politics and society.
