The Luftsicherheitsgesetz (
German
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for ''Aviation Security Act'') is a German law created in response to the
September 11, 2001 attacks which came into force on 2005-01-15. § 14 (3) would have granted the
Bundeswehr
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permission to use weapons against commercial airliners once their designation as a
weapon by hijackers had become apparent. However, the clause was declared unconstitutional by the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
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on 2006-02-15.
The court affirmed that the sacrifice of innocent lives to the benefit of another group violated the unconditionally protected
human dignity
Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inaliena ...
under Article 1 of the
German constitution
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The West German Constitution was approved in Bonn on 8 May 1949 an ...
.
See also
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:de:Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Luftsicherheitsgesetz 2005
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Trolley problem
The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The series usually begins with a scenario in which a runaway tram or ...
References
External links
Full text of the law
* ttps://www.sicherheit-das-fachmagazin.de/ausgaben/ausgabe-6/ Guidelinesbr>Guideline risk assessmentGuideline threat managementTransitional settlement 2005/2017/2019
Law of Germany
Aircraft hijacking
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