Post by Administrator on Sept 14, 2012 11:20:03 GMT -5
Imagine that an ex-scientist builds a nuclear time bomb in his backyard; he sets it to go off in one hour. Anyone living within a ten-mile radius will be dead if it actually detonates--many others would die thereafter. But he might not go through with it; and it might be a dud.
Are his neighbors entitled to preemptively secure their right to life by violating his private property rights and defusing the bomb themselves? Are they morally justified in torturing and killing this man of science in order to force him to defuse it for them? Are his family members off limits?
Or are his and all private property rights absolute and inviolable?
Are his neighbors entitled to preemptively secure their right to life by violating his private property rights and defusing the bomb themselves? Are they morally justified in torturing and killing this man of science in order to force him to defuse it for them? Are his family members off limits?
Or are his and all private property rights absolute and inviolable?