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Maritime law does not (AFAICT) allow for an intermediate state of affairs between ‘belligerent’ and ‘surrender’ — either you are fighting (in which case the Israelis are entitled to more or less sink the ship, although prudentially no sane person would do so) or you are surrendered and you may not use any more force to resist the enemy.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

Maritime law does not (AFAICT) allow for an intermediate state of affairs between ‘belligerent’ and ‘surrender’ — either you are fighting (in which case the Israelis are entitled to more or less sink the ship, although prudentially no sane person would do so) or you are surrendered and you may not use any more force to resist the enemy.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010

Of course, as usual, I think that the questions of what they morally or prudentially ought to do are different from the questions of what they may do without committing injustice.

Hoverbikes 2009

It does not serve the Democrats, frankly, prudentially, to talk in these terms.

CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009 2009

But how should we balance the interests of the two prudentially estranged selves when the current self is not a person?

Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making Jaworska, Agnieszka 2009

In the development of the protections, the law supporting selective incorporation was thin to say the least, and prudentially no one knew where the decisions — and the entire Civil Rights Movement — would lead.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power: 2009

Were there good reasons, prudentially, for the prayer to change?

Archive 2008-02-01 papabear 2008

Of course, he nowhere explains, in spite of repeated requests from the anarchists, what possible standard of justice he could invoke that would make it morally permissible, even if prudentially unwise, for the government to lock a harmless man in a cage for ten years, for doing nothing more than transporting marijuana to willing customers.

Meanwhile, in Minarchistan… 2008

Not only was it completely unnecessary (and prudentially improper) for her to reach these constitutional questions, she likely got them wrong, for many of the commentators who think the NSA program is illegal do not think it raises serious Fourth Amendment problems.

Is That Legal?: Judge Taylor is such a bad writer, don't you think? 2006

Were there good reasons, prudentially, for the prayer to change?

Archive 2008-02-03 papabear 2008