The limits of liberalism and pornography: notes on Lorenne M. G. Clark
Category: Criminality
Pornography and liberalism
Disjunctive syllogism: the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
The logic of the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Penal sadomasochism
Is it possible to construe punishment as good thing?
The thirteenth shot…
What is wrong with avenging justice?
To hurt with love…
Notes on Jean Hampton’s moral educationist theory of punishment
Mommy has a license to kill, Kant said so
Why mother’s may kill, but governments may not…
A world too small for the two of us…
Bedau argues that opposition to the death penalty cannot be utterly unconditional.1 He asks us to imagine a world where the execution of a murderer would miraculously bring back to life the innocent victim. Could we still oppose the penalty on principle?
I don’t know, could we? I find it somehow easier to imagine a world […]
Make them squirm
In what way is capital punishment like a wedding? Not in the way you think.
When it’s ok to kill a person
If you are going to have capital punishment, this is how the logic of retributivism requires it should be done.
Barbarization
Capital punishment and barbarization
