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Question posted on May 9, 2013; 2 responses
Should the government regulate hateful Billboards? I once saw a billboard that said the pope is the anti-Christ. I shrugged it off as a matter of free speech. But then someone pointed out that someone could advertise a billboard that...
Law Show

Question posted on April 11, 2013; 1 response
Do polygamy bans violate the natural rights of bisexuals? In wake of the current Supreme Court debate in the US that gay marriage bans violate due process and equal protection guarantees, I want to ask a philosopher whether these two...
Law, Sex Show

Question posted on December 13, 2012; 1 response
It seems I am chronically unable to get my questions posted here. Being stubborn as I am, IŽll try with another one: An Oxford professor of law let a question hanging at the end of a lecture some months ago: Whether...
Law Show

Question posted on August 9, 2012; 1 response
If a person pushes a fat man into an on coming trolley and in doing so prevents five people from being killing should that person be tried for murder? Is the law clear on whether this was murder? If it...
Law Show

Question posted on March 31, 2012; 1 response
Should law enforcement be allowed to lie to suspects during interrogation?...
Law Show

Question posted on February 9, 2012; 1 response
As a student of law with a vivid interest in logic (in a broad sense), I find myself intrigued by the possibility of combining these two subjects. From what I so far have found, the implementation of the latter field...
Law, Logic Show

Question posted on October 20, 2011; 1 response
How does one draw the line between the sort of morality a legal system should enforce, and the sort of morality the legal system should leave to its own devices? It seems that there are some cases where the...
Ethics, Law Show

Question posted on September 29, 2011; 1 response
Would it be ethical for law enforcement agents to specifically target people who are on social security for violations of drug laws?...
Ethics, Law Show

Question posted on August 17, 2011; 1 response
Can ethics be a sufficient condition for becoming a lifelong "law-abiding" citizen? What ethical standards could be there to ensure life under legal boundaries? Or if one needs some very basic legal knowledge to achieve that being, what combination of...
Ethics, Law Show

Question posted on August 4, 2011; 1 response
Should a parent report their own children to the police if they are aware that the child has commited a criminal offence. Does the age of the child or the seriousness of the crime matter. Example should you report your...
Children, Law, Punishment Show

Question posted on July 29, 2011; 1 response
The law currently defines sexual harassment as "unwanted sexual attention. There is more to the definition but in my own workplace the policy specifically defines sexual harassment as "any unwanted sexual attention". However I recently went out on a date...
Feminism, Law, Sex Show

Question posted on July 3, 2011; 1 response
When someone is indicted for a crime, it's standard for newspaper reports to state that he only "allegedly" did whatever he is accused of doing. But suppose that the guilt of the defendant is extremely well confirmed (a thousand witnesses...
Business, Law Show

Question posted on April 20, 2011; 1 response
Sometimes, we force people to conform to the law, regardless of what they might want. Other times, we reform the law in order to more properly reflect what our citizens want as a society, how they live their lives...
Law Show

Question posted on March 23, 2011; 1 response
On March 19 2011, Thomas Pogge responded to a question posed on March 17 concerning (inter alia) the morality of an attorney's decision to represent a person accused of a serious crime in circumstances in which the attorney has "very...
Law Show

Question posted on March 17, 2011; 1 response
Hello. My question is about law and morality. It is commonly assumed that intentionality/ purpose is an important factor in determining how morally 'good' an action is. For example if I give to charity because I honestly care about the cause and...
Ethics, Law Show

Question posted on March 17, 2011; 1 response
Do attorneys who successfully enable guilty clients to evade conviction (or who manage to convict innocent defendants) have any reason to feel that they are acting immorally? Or are they beyond reproach so long as they themselves do nothing illegal...
Ethics, Law Show

Question posted on August 19, 2010; 1 response
Is it unfair for a judge to give their verdict based on a technicality?...
Law Show

Question posted on June 27, 2010; 1 response
Is there a genuine case to be made for outlawing marijuana given the fact that alcohol and tobacco are legal? In other words, is there a way to make a distinction between marijuana on the one hand and alcohol/tobacco on...
Law Show

Question posted on May 26, 2010; 1 response
I am interested in the philosophical implications of the two competing views of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. It is often contended that an "individualist" view of what equal protection requires can't explain why only classifications based on...
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Question posted on May 6, 2010; 1 response
Is it okay to disobey a just law just because you disagree with it? For example, take under-age drinking of alcohol. In various parts of the world there is a general disagreement about when it is a right age to...
Ethics, Law Show




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