Gonna write a paper on Non-Epistemic Injustice, arguing that there are forms of iniquitous treatment of people that are not characteristically epistemic yet which none the less harm people qua people.

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I entirely agree. No experience myself but when my grandmother and great aunt were very old they talked to us about living in London during the Blitz. No fun at all.

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I think likewise the main personal experience of WW2 that got reported to me growing up was a friend of my dad's who was a child during the Blitz and described how for years of his life he was instinctively afraid of the sound of airplanes overhead. Mass violence does not seem glamorous to me.

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One thing that has been extremely formative to me that I now realise was not widely shared: growing up and knowing people who were personally affected by the Troubles on one hand and the Biafran war on the other, and their absolute conviction that these things were very extremely bad.

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Ethics in fact does a version of this, as they have a review process then a "whole board discussion" about every paper that gets through the review that itself has a 50% rejection rate. I am sure they don't do anything so efficient as flip a coin, but that is what I think they are effectively doing.

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