The Morality of ISIS Returnees : using thought experiments to determine moral responsibility or innocence

Sammanfattning: What are ISIS returnees morally responsible for, and how does that affect what should happen next? This is a question currently facing all Western democracies. Using thought experiments and reductive individualism, this thesis discusses the moral responsibility of both adult and child ISIS returnees. The results show that adults are generally morally responsible for their actions; this is the case regardless if they have posed direct threats or indirect threats. Duress, time, and terrorism as morally distinctive are discussed as factors impacting these results. Children are best presumed morally innocent unless they have joined ISIS by themselves, although in that case it remains unlikely that they are morally responsible for their actions.