Moral Blackmail and the Family

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Moral Blackmail and the Family

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Moral blackmail is a wrongful strategy intended to force a person to perform an act by manipulating her circumstances so as to make it morally wrong for her to do anything else. The idea of moral blackmail can seem paradoxical, but moral blackmail is a coherent and indeed a familiar phenomenon. It has special significance for our intimate personal relationships and is often a force within family dynamics. It is used to enforce power relationships within families, and in particular to uphold e...

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Date created

2016

Creator

Simon Keller

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Moral_Blackmail_and_the_Family/16550874

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Political science not elsewhere classified / Applied ethics not elsewhere classified / Philosophy not elsewhere classified / blackmail / duties of care / exploitation / family / special relationships / Clinical Research / Generic health relevance / Social Sciences / Arts & Humanities / Ethics / Philosophy / Social Sciences - Other Topics / Political Science not elsewhere classified / Applied Ethics not elsewhere classified

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