Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong

Peter BAEHR

Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong

Peter BAEHR

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

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Abstract

Can moral life survive dictatorship? When a government intimidates its subjects; when it sows mistrust among them; when it penalizes virtue and incentivizes servility, how might men and women keep faith with themselves and their fellows? Citizens of democratic states tend to ponder such questions, if at all, with a detached, even theoretical, interest. Dictatorships happened then or, if extant, occur over there. But in the once-free city of Hong Kong such insouciance has vanished.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Quillette
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2021

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I am grateful to Judith Alder for her comments on this essay and, even more, for her willingness to think through with me the problems the essay tackles.

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Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong

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