Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

The Guardian individual retribution serves justice; the Idealist individual rehabilitation serves mercy. The Rational social deterrence prevents crimes by scaring potential evildoers, and in so doing diminishes their freedom; the Artisan social protection of society prevents crimes by crushing and weakening actual evildoers, and in so doing diminishes their power. Earlier I equated condemnation with [...]

It’s funny how some people interpret the expression inter arma silent leges (in the midst of arms (i.e., in time of war) the laws are silent) as “in time of war the laws ought to be silent, and therefore the President, say, ought to, again, assume unlimited powers,” instead of merely describing a highly unfortunate [...]

If you were to meet a man for the first time in the state of nature, how would you know whether it is required, permissible, of prohibited to kill him? Well, first, as per the previous post, you know that you ought to love him and do good to him. Your second asset is the [...]