January 21, 2015
Sniping and “Fair Fights”
This isn’t a post about whether the American Sniper film is propaganda, or whether Chris Kyle is a hero or a psychopath. Rather, it’s just about the ethics of sniping….
Author: Jason Brennan
December 01, 2014
On Killing Government Agents in Self-Defense: Authority and Legitimacy
In my paper “When May We Kill Government Agents? In Defense of Moral Parity,” I argue that the conditions under which we may justifiably kill democratic government agents, acting ex…
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
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,…
November 12, 2014
The Jailhouse Theory of International Relations
Tesón’s reaction to my post reminds of me of this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk&w=560&h=315] It’s wrong in the way Jessup’s speech is wrong. We might need some men on some walls, but we…
November 11, 2014
What Makes Someone a Hero
Suppose Joe sincerely wants to serve his community. He is even willing to die to do so. Joe sincerely believes his Uncle Sam is a good person. Joe sincerely believes…