Suppose that I come to believe, stupidly, that taking caffeine is dangerous. I announce henceforth that I will lock any people I catch drinking coffee in my basement for 30…
Suppose you see a cop using excessive force. Can you use violence to stop the cop? Suppose it’s wrong to criminalize pot. Can you violently resist a drug arrest?…
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…
Jeff McMahan truly excellent book Killing in War challenges the doctrine of the moral equality of combatants in war. According to this widely held view, soldiers in a war have equal permission…
I’m writing a paper for a conference in December on aggression. My paper is provisionally titled, “When May We Kill Government Agents?: Against the Special Immunity Thesis”. This will eventually…
See the introduction to and explanation for this series of posts. Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast, Microfoundations of the Rule of Law I should note at the beginning…