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**Does justice depend upon the circumstances? **
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If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing, even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do?
 * The Moral Side of Murder**

Jeremy Bentham, a famous utilitarian philosopher, presents us with a famous nineteenth century law case involving a shipwrecked crew of four. After nineteen days lost at sea, the captain decides to kill the cabin boy, the weakest amongst them, so they can feed on his blood and body to survive. Is this murder? Justified? Just?
 * The Case for Cannibalism**

Suppose a man has planted a bomb in New York City, and it will explode in twenty-four hours unless the police are able to find it. Should it be legal for the police to use torture to extract information from the suspected bomber?
 * Is Torture Ever Justified?**

[|Click here] to watch noted Harvard Professor Michael Sandel's lecture on Justice


 * CASES: **

//Korematsu// (Japanese Internment) //Bowes v. Hardwick// (sodomy)