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Selbstverteidigung und Selbstbestimmung gegen moralischen Nihilismus im Kontext des Strafrechts
Self-Defense and Self-Determination Against Moral Nihilism in the Context of Criminal Law — The article concerns the question in what sense does comparative criminal law research confirm the idea that inflation of repressive laws promotes overcriminalization and does not promote trust in the possibility of mutual moral improvement between actors. We will also see to what extent the right to self-defense is recognized in its various forms. Trust in the laws is ensured by the fact that the will to power guarantees the right to self-defense. This is guaranteed by the right to avoid self-accusation. Guilt is not simply a consequence of accusation, coming from society, or of self-incrimination. Guilt does not look in the direction of the past, in the direction of retributive purposes. Rather, it has a prospect of the future, of mutual correction of character and behavior. This calls moral nihilism into question.
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Vango : between sky and earth
\"In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost\"--Amazon.com.
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Socrates’ Triple Accusation in Plato's Apol. 24b–c as a Source of Jesus’ Triple Accusation in Luke 23.2
The article presents evidence for a direct, both formal and contentual, dependence of Jesus’ triple accusation in Luke 23.2 upon Socrates’ triple accusation in Plato's Apol. 24b–c.
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Gendered Affordances of Digital Technology in Mitigating the Perceived Risk of Dating App Matches Perpetrating Sexual Assault or “Making Stories” of Assault
Dating apps are a popular tool for finding sexual and romantic partners. Yet, these apps can pose risks that arise from gendered affordances of technology that users deploy to harass and victimize their matches, particularly matches who are women or sexual and gender minorities. Just as gendered affordances may facilitate risks, dating app users may also deploy technology in ways that mitigate risk. In this study, we examined risks that men and women perceive dating app matches to pose, as well as ways in which they use technology to mitigate these risks. Through an analysis of focus groups conducted with a sample of college student dating app users, we found the perceived risks that matches pose were markedly different for men and women, particularly among those seeking mixed-gender pairings. Women who matched with men were concerned about being sexually assaulted, whereas men who matched with women were concerned about being falsely accused of assault. Thus, women used gendered affordances to enhance their safety, and men used affordances to enhance their “believability.” We suggest our findings point to the positional and interactional nature of gendered affordances, encompassing ways in which gender inequality may be both maintained and subverted with digital technology.
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The perfect alibi
\"A new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the convicted athlete, joined by a new lawyer, is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered. Robin Lockwood is a young lawyer with a prestigious small law firm and a former MMA fighter who helped pay for Yale Law School with her bouts. She is representing the victim of the first rape for her civil lawsuit against her rapist, who is now convinced the rapist is stalking her and trying to intimidate her. At the same time, another client is up on a murder charge--one that should be dismissed as self-defense--but the D.A. trying the case is determined to bring it to trial. Now she has to mastermind two impossible cases, trying to find the hidden truth that links the two of them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Authoritative Sources: Hagiography, Local History, and the Antisemitic Child Murder Libel in Early Modern Spain
This article focuses on the role that early modern printed works played in the preservation and dissemination of two child murder narratives in Spain that have endured to the present day: those of Dominguito de Val and the Holy Child of La Guardia. It seeks to address the following questions: how did the narratives of Dominguito de Val and the Holy Child of La Guardia survive through the early modern period (broadly 1500 to 1800); were such tales transmitted primarily via antisemitic polemics or rather via authoritative sources whose purpose was not primarily antisemitic? To begin, this article examines the presence of these narratives in explicitly antisemitic polemics produced in the early modern Iberian Peninsula. Starting with an analysis of the transmission of the narrative of the Holy Child of La Guardia and then of Dominguito de Val, this article proceeds to analyze the role played by other forms of printed media, particularly hagiographies and local municipal histories, in their circulation and how some printed texts became authoritative sources of knowledge.
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Flags on the bayou
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed-and did-as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah.
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Russian False Religious Accusations of Ukrainians
The text provides a summary of several months of research on Russian false religious accusations against Ukrainians (Satanists, Satan) and actions (de-Satanization, Holy war, Jihad). Only the essential elements required for the conceptual analysis of the insufficiency of existing explications will be presented. The extensive evidence supporting the existence, falseness, and characteristics of the accusations will be supplied where necessary for the analysis. The analysis requires certain preliminary clarifications, namely: the evidence of the existence, falseness, and other attributes of the Russian accusations (section 1), the description and analysis of the most plausible explanations regarding the motives behind the accusations (section 2), and an argument highlighting the insufficiency of these explanations, which includes logical, factual, clinical, and interpretative objections (section 3). The underlying reason for the insufficiency of explanations can be attributed to various possibilities, some of which include the peculiarity of the phenomenon itself, particularly within the context of Russia, as well as the absence of applicable models for seemingly similar contemporary and historical phenomena such as a lack of democratic practices (section 3.2).
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