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Slap Exemption: The Honest Amendment

Daily writing promptIf you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?View all responses Let’s get this out there bluntly: if I got to tweak the law, I’d carve out a one-slap-a-day exemption from assault charges. Not knives, not guns, not “malicious battery” or any of that civil-war tomfoolery. Just one slap. Daily. For people who’ve earned it. Or for no reason at all, because some mornings you wake up feeling like gravel stuck in your shoe and only a good […]

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Philosophics Dec 24

Justice is often defended as fair. That claim does a lot of work, most of it before anyone realises it’s working at all.
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This essay looks at fairness and commensurability not as moral virtues, but as preconditions quietly installed so that retributive justice can function at all.

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Katie Zhou explores the hopes and costs of gender avowal in Gender, Gender Expression, and the Dilemma of the Body, a free ETHICS article at doi.org/10.1086/735387 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

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Derk Pereboom reviews Carolina Sartorio’s Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action for ETHICS at doi.org/10.1086/735390 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

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Brian Larson May 13, 2025

Very excited that Cambridge University Press has released the collection Beth Britt and I have edited on rhetoric and law. If you are interested in either topic, check it out. It's available online free of charge through this link (though we'd love it if you ordered a copy): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rhetorical-traditions-and-contemporary-law/E726D8261ECF874A252F7E53C17122B5 If you write in this area, we especially would like you to note the final chapter and its call for proposals. #lawfedi #legalwriting #teamrhetoric #lawprofs #argumentation #legalphilosophy

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WilliamLMiller Mar 6, 2025

1️⃣3️⃣ If law is to be just, it must be compatible with human agency. A legal system that assumes fixed outcomes will always be an obstacle to growth.

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