The standard use of the concept is this. Tom wants Dick dead, but he doesn’t want to be charged for the murder himself. So he tells Harry – falsely, let’s suppose – that Dick has cuckolded him, relying on his… Read More ›
jurisprudence
THE FORGOTTEN MERITS OF TRIAL BY ORDEAL
I think we might have been too quick getting rid of some features of medieval jurisprudence. How so? Well, Derek Chauvin’s defence is claiming it wasn’t Chauvin’s knee on his neck that killed George Floyd, it was the drugs in his… Read More ›
IMMIGRATION, INVASION, OCCUPATION, AND CONQUEST
Few and far between are polities that manage to keep the foreigner out for long. As we’ve seen from the druthers of Donald Trump and his followers, by immigration is not meant the immigrant is necessarily welcomed in her new… Read More ›
OF CRIMES BY ASSOCIATION WITH CRIMES
Definitive of the Millian liberalism to which most of us purport to subscribe is the view that a) all is permitted save what is prohibited, and that b) a necessary, albeit insufficient, condition of some behavior being justifiably prohibited is… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 