November 30, 2014
Self, Other, and Morality
A forthcoming study: Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making Molly Crockett et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forthcoming Abstract: Concern for the…
Month: November 2014
November 27, 2014
On Reverse Racism: Three Thought-Experiments
For some, especially on the right, reverse racism is just as serious and problematic as regular racism. For others, especially on the left, reverse racism is impossible; a black person,…
November 26, 2014
Mr. Jefferson’s University
In 2012, a student was violently raped by a group of fraternity members at the University of Virginia, a story that was recently re-told by Sabrina Rubin Erdely in Rolling…
November 26, 2014
Retaliation and Extortion: More on the Morality of Killing Government Agents in Self-Defense or Defense of Others
Here is another excerpt from the current draft of “When May We Kill Government Agents?”. This section appears after I’ve debunked (or tried to debunk) a range of arguments for…
November 25, 2014
Montesquieu quote of the day
“Political liberty consists in security, or, at least, in the opinion that we enjoy security. This security is never more dangerously attacked than in public or private accusations. It is,…
November 25, 2014
When May We Kill Government Agents? In Defense of Moral Parity
That’s the title of a paper I’ll be presenting at the Morality of Aggression conference in Tucson in early December. I haven’t done any work on this in recent months,…