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Self-Defense

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[Revised entry by Helen Frowe and Jonathan Parry on September 18, 2026.
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Killing and harming others are paradigmatic wrongs. And yet there is at least one intuitive exception to this prohibition - namely, killing or harming in self-defense, or in defense of others. Consider:...

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