November 28, 2003

A Reply to Richard Wolin on Suicide Bombings

By TED HONDERICH

There are great goods, six by my way of counting. The lack or denial of them makes our lives bad or wretched. One of these goods is freedom and power, first of all of a people in a homeland. By our human natures we all desire these fundamental goods. Our equally inescapable rationality commits us to the principle of securing the goods for those who lack them when the alternative is improving lives that are already good.

This principle judges the omissions and acts of states,

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