(In response to Jessica’s post.) So, here’s the trolley problem: A runaway trolley is on course to kill five innocent people. I can switch the trolley to another track, saving…
Over at Philosophy etc, Bradley Gabbard argues that a widespread intuition about the trolley problem can justify compulsory aid to the global poor. Here is the trolley problem: A runaway…
A common dispute among libertarians concerns whether justice requires the nation-state or whether justice prohibits it. Minimal-state libertarians (minarchists) argue that justice generally requires a nation-state in order to ensure…
We have discussed at length the differences between bleeding-heart libertarians and liberal egalitarians. Let us assume that both camps agree that political institutions must take centrally into account the plight…
More on this topic here: http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2012/08/16/will-the-bad-voters-please-step-forward-more-from-jason-brennan/
My Facebook friend Helen Dale, a lawyer in Scotland, has written a very nice legal defense of marriage equality titled “A Plea in Law for Equal Marriage” that won first…