Can we shoot nihilists?

Interesting post by your boy Burger King Marcus–with a funny cartoon, titled “The Dangers of a Cowboy Philosophy,” which shows a guy being shot before completing a sign, “Shoot first and ask questions lat…” The shooter says, “Yeah, I guess he was just askin’ for it…”This was apropos my comment that “ethics is for the ethical,” and my comment in note 14 of this article, “[…] another way to respond to a rights-skeptic would be to shoot him. If there are no rights, as he maintains, then he cannot object to being shot. So, presumably, any rights-skeptic would change his position and admit there were rights (if only so as to be able to object to being shot), or we would soon have no more rights-skeptics left alive to give us rights-advocates any trouble.”

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3:12 pm on November 9, 2004