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| Volume | 42 |
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| Month | February |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Title | Why You Should Be a Law-Abiding Anarchist (Except When You Shouldn't) |
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| Author(s) | Heidi M. Hurd |
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| First Page | 75 |
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| Abstract | In this Article, Professor Hurd emphasizes that the rationality of following any given rule resides in one's confidence that one is acting on the balance of reasons for action - including the good reasons for following the rule - and not at all in the fact that there is a rule. This means that if there are are weightier reasons to break the rule than to abide by it, all reasons for rule-following considered, the fact that one is breaking a rule is no more significant than would be the breaking of a stick. The author lists some reasons that make clear that the anarchist's fundamental refusal to substitute rules for her own judgment is fully compatible with, and indeed largely dictates, a life that rarely runs amok of the law. |
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