Re: Utilitarian Contradiction ?

Daniel Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Mon, 25 May 1998 16:23:59 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 25 May 1998, Michael Lorrey wrote:

> I never said I'd kill all of them. A First strike can range from a mild talking to,
> up to the agression you are insinuating. Moreover, I was mainly thinking of it in
> terms of the policy I would have in a libertarian world, not the current one.

Hmmm... There MUST a better term for this than "First-strike", which
AFAIK entails disabling your opponent before they can disable you.
Clearly, a mild talking to will not satisfy a rigorous first-strike
policy. <shrug>