Some Extreme Views in Ethics I thought of an argument several years ago to refute rights-absolutism. Actually, part of the argument was inspired by David Friedman's objections to absolutism in The Machinery of Freedom (as I vaguely remember it, he basically says that if you're an absolutist, then you should probably hold that everything is impermissible). But the clever part of the argument I thought of myself. But then I was scooped by Jackson & Smith, in a now well-known paper: their paper giving essentially the same argument appeared while my own paper was under review. :( This made it harder, but eventually
Risk Refutes Absolutism
Risk Refutes Absolutism
Risk Refutes Absolutism
Some Extreme Views in Ethics I thought of an argument several years ago to refute rights-absolutism. Actually, part of the argument was inspired by David Friedman's objections to absolutism in The Machinery of Freedom (as I vaguely remember it, he basically says that if you're an absolutist, then you should probably hold that everything is impermissible). But the clever part of the argument I thought of myself. But then I was scooped by Jackson & Smith, in a now well-known paper: their paper giving essentially the same argument appeared while my own paper was under review. :( This made it harder, but eventually