Questions for Justin and Luke

[Justin Schwartz]

>Might cannot make right in anything but a very trivial sense (as I believe
>Carrol has already stated).  For it to be true in any sense, one would have
>to deny the existence of justice and value.  If one goes that far, they
>cannot plausibly claim
>that one system of governance is superior to another.
>

I take it you reject Hobbes' view that any government is better than none, 
which is clearly a might makes right argument of a sort. Yeah, it's a sort 
of social contract argument but "Covenants extorted by fear are valid," he 
says. Interestingly Kant runs a version of the same line. Jeremy Waldron 
think's he basically Hobbesean on this. jks

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