I've directly seen enough people around me prematurely dispatched by the death shot. I guess "libertarian philosophers" don't recognize the principle of self defense.
“I’ve directly seen enough people around me prematurely dispatched by the death shot. I guess “libertarian philosophers” don’t recognize the principle of self defense.”
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Almost everybody’s principles these days operate on a sliding scale.
That is, you decide what you want, then you construct arguments and rationalizations to support it.
If you can shoehorn in something like self defense, great, if not, forget it.
Reason, logic, consistency and the like are unimportant except to the extent you can use them in your rationalization.
The arguments do not have to make sense, you just have to have an argument that gets you where you want to go and keep repeating it.