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Violence: The Rebel
4.1 Absurdity, Rebellion, and Murder
4.2 Against Communism
4.3 Violence: Inevitable ...s second part after committing the
inexplicable murder that ends the book’s first part. He has
lived his...and revolves around its
protagonist’s senseless murder of an Arab on a beach in Algiers
and concludes ...
inference:
Murder is wrong.
If Murder is wrong, then getting your little brother to murder
people is ...a
sentence would be ‘If murder is wrong, then getting little
brother to murder people is wrong’. In the...occurrence of ‘Murder is wrong’
in (1) has to mean the same thing as the occurrence of
‘Murder is wrong’ in...
criminal
offence of, say, murder is not identical to the moral wrong of murder
as law will import various...Rawls wishes to rule
out? Take murder as an example. Standardly murder requires proof of at
least causation...understanding of murder should be, or whether the
imaginary case should count as murder, only to suggest...
killing and murder.
Many have suggested that torture is a greater evil than killing or
even murder. For example... to death is worse than murder,
for it involves torture in addition to murder. On the other hand,
torture...does not necessarily involve killing, let alone murder, and
indeed torturers do not necessarily have the...
“Jane Austen was hanged for murder,”
“‘Jane Austen was hanged for murder’ is
believed,” and so on. The...The
proposition (1) “Jane Austen was hanged for murder” coheres
with some set of propositions. (2) “Jane...
conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder.”
The dirty hands tradition dates back to Machiavelli...it is clearly not is the same league as torture,
murder, or gross deceit.
Bernard Williams does indeed...example and focus on really grave injustices like murder, torture,
rape or slavery that are said to be warranted...
prediction. As long as a murder is at
least twice as bad as an ordinary death not by murder,
consequentialists...place no intrinsic
disvalue on wrong actions like murder, they yield the prediction that
if you have a choice... two people to die,
it is clear that you should murder. After all, other things being
equal, the situation...
problematic case:
Small Town Murder: A person accused of murder in a small town
was seen driving ...prior to the murder. The
prosecution’s theory is that he was driving there to commit the
murder. The defense...consider
a stylized case. Alice is charged with murder. Traces at the crime
scene, which the perpetrator...
everyone believes that he committed the eighth murder as well.
However, the lawyer, being superstitious...indicate that his client is innocent of the eighth
murder, and the lawyer comes to believe this on the basis...showing that his client is innocent
of the eighth murder. The lawyer recognizes that the complicated line...
prosecution’s
case that he was driving there to commit a murder and also with the
defence’s case that he was driving... or of the town or the street
where the alleged murder occurred? What if it occurred at an
international... and the victim
were at the time of the alleged murder inmates of the same prison?
Should we then take...
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