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July 11, 2016

Is Belief In the Moral Parity Thesis Dangerous? (Probably Not. But Even If So, So What?)

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…

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,…

June 25, 2014

Bleg: On The Ethics of Killing Government Agents Acting Ex Officio

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…

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