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Follow-up: in addition to their nation-wide effort, GiveDirectly has now also launched regional relief funds which are targetted to getting cash aid to low-income families affected by the crisis in New York City, in Seattle, in the San Francisco Bay Ar…

This post has ended up being one of the most heavily trafficked at Policy of Truth, and though it hasn’t so far gotten a single public comment, it elicited a pretty strong response off-line. I didn’t count them, but I got maybe a dozen or s…

In reply to djr. To your first paragraph: right. But police officers are much more likely to confront a threat from which retreat is unacceptable. For instance, suppose you work for the Department of Public Works and are asked to monitor social distanc…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think that really settles it: your claim here is that law enforcement officers may kill in self-defense, and not that they may kill those who fail to comply for failing to comply. We might disagree extensively about the co…

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I’m guessing that the issues here are pretty sensitive, because while no one commented here, I got a bunch of comments via email. I’ll ask some of those commenters whether they’d be willing to have their comments anonymously excerpted…

In reply to djr. So let me make my view as clear as I can by way of an example accessible to all. Suppose you hold the view that wrongful voting is a bit like pollution, so that each instance of it, though thoroughly wrongful, makes only a small contri…