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The Irrationality of Stand Your Ground: Game Theory on Self-Defense

Published:2022-11-29 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:2194-5616
Container-title:Moral Philosophy and Politics
language:en
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Author:

Santana Carlos¹^ORCID,Smith Adam C.¹,Petrozzo Kathryn¹,Halm Derek¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Philosophy , University of Utah , 215 S Central Campus Dr., 4th Floor , Salt Lake City , UT 84112 , USA

Abstract

Abstract US law continues its historical trend of growing more permissive towards actors who engage in violent action in purported self-defense. We draw on some informal game theory to show why this is strategically irrational and suggest rolling back self-defense doctrines like stand your ground to earlier historical precedents like duty to retreat.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mopp-2022-0007/pdf

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