Medical reasons for action vs. religious reasons for action

2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
Here's an analogy from another area in which the normal rule - one person may not alter or injure another's body without permission - is relaxed: self-defense. Say Vic is doing something that Don perceives as blasphemous, but that might also be dangerous to Don

Re: Medical reasons for action vs. religious reasons for action

2012-07-05 Thread Vance R. Koven
I'm not sure who the we is in Eugene's hypothesis, but nobody is proposing to add anything to defenses, since it's the existence of the * offense* that is under discussion. Nobody contests that the crime of murder, or attempted murder, exists with a rather precise definition. There is as yet no

Medical reasons for action vs. religious reasons for action

2012-07-05 Thread Volokh, Eugene
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