grad student | G.A. Cohen stan | democratic socialist | vegan
@BenBurgis A very real world example of what Cohen wrote about in Self-ownership freedom and equality about libertarianism and Marxism
Author of Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? Professor emeritus at Bristol. He/him. Also @crookedfootball@mstdn.social
@RebeccaBuxton Basically what Jerry Cohen did, circa 1982 at UCL. Much of the stuff that ended up in Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality was initially crunched through there. I no longer have the list of meetings/readings though. @JoWolffBSG might
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@MattPolProf @cafreiman Indeed. Cohen is very explicit about opposing ways of equalizing through harm that would involve vastly less harm and, unlike either the trolley here or what it analogizes, would bring significant benefits (see his eyeball lottery example in Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality).