July 08, 2016
The Fall-Out Objection: Self-Defense vs. War
(Please excuse typos. I’ve got to write this quickly.) We don’t know all the facts yet. But it appears that during the Dallas protests, some attackers killed a number of police…
(Please excuse typos. I’ve got to write this quickly.) We don’t know all the facts yet. But it appears that during the Dallas protests, some attackers killed a number of police…
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…
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…
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,…
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…