Category: Law & Philosophy
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Before legal status was granted to standing your ground, case law was clear in many jurisdictions, that the obligation of one who is threatened was to flee the scene before any use of harmful force. If not, then you could be liable for harm done to the attacker.
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Move over, BPA, make room for the new kid on the block: 4- MI ( the 'cute' name for 4-methylimidazole), a byproduct of the process used to create one of the coloring agents used in what is obliquely termed 'caramel color' on the ingredients list of many processed foods, most notably sodas like Coca Cola…
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“I am empowered to give you a lawful order to move out of the pedestrian traffic flow. …I am asking you to move…15 yards to your right. If you do not, then I have the legal authority to order you to disperse. If you do not obey…you are subject to physical removal by my officers,…
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Afghan prosecutors announced that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from 12 to 3 years. She would remain in jail — with her child from the rape — for not reporting her attack fast enough.
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Justin E.H Smith at the New York Times Opinionator blog.
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“…[A]longside neuroscience,…research in genetics is identifying the genes which give rise to antisocial and aggressive behaviour…. The way the rest of us develop moral rationality is utterly dependent on a functioning brain. But if in a criminal we find key components of their brain are damaged subtly enough for them to function otherwise normally, we…
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“John Adams famously said that “facts are stubborn things.” But Anthony Kennedy foreclosed a look at the facts. By resolving a question of fact by judicial fiat, he may have sealed the fate of our campaign finance system. –Richard L. Hansen
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Why let truth and reason interfere when you have the opportunity to kill?
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This is another reason why the U.S. should abolish capital punishment. We have little moral force when we protest the possible execution of a citizen of another country.
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“The three men spent 18 years behind bars for a brutal crime they said they did not commit. Locked away for life — with one of them sentenced to death — the men thought they would never experience freedom again.”
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Norm recently gave us a civics lesson in why capital punishment should be abolished under the current justice system. Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker explains why many of us, even without an in-depth knowledge of the law feel queasy about the death penalty.
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Philosophically, I am not opposed to the death penalty. However, I believe it should be abolished for a number of practical reasons.
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