Philosophers really like imagined experiments, and number of have already been as influential in modern moral and political philosophy as ‘the ticking bomb’. The concept was famously employed by Michael Walzer in his seminal treatment of the problem of filthy armsIn a stark forecast posted alongside chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s tax-boosting fisca

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