Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?

Philosophy Now 79:6-9 (2010)
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The article examines how surveillance may on the one hand discourage us from doing wrong while at the same time making us less moral in another sense, since it encourages us to avoid wrongdoing purely out of self-interest.

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Emrys Westacott
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