Is it possible to construe punishment as good thing?
Category: Deontology
Penal sadomasochism
Mommy has a license to kill, Kant said so
Why mother’s may kill, but governments may not…
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
Weininger’s misogyny (or what we talk about when we talk about hate)
Was Otto Weininger a misogynist? Or are we missing something?
Sentience and rationality
What is correct and salvageable in utilitarianism is its impartiality, its resistance to corruption. Rachels sounds right about this.1 It appeals rigidly to a principle appreciable to all sentient creatures, skirting the tendency to cave in to local impulses that plague theories such as virtue theory or, in some fetishistic forms, reason-based theories.
Sentience casts a […]
