Pies: A person should never kick a dog facing him or her

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Fatal dog attacks in the United States cause the deaths of thirty to fifty people each year. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were 468 deaths in the United States from being bitten or struck by a dog between 2011 and 2021 inclusive. This is an average of 43 deaths annually, ranging from a low of 31 deaths in 2016 to a high of 81 deaths in 2021. Dogs killed more males than females during the tracked period. Children between the ages of one and four are the most frequent victims, accounting for 29.4% of the fatalities from dog attacks in 2022; those under the age of seventeen accounted for 56.7% of all fatalities that year. Around 4.5 million Americans are bitten…

Evidence: 20 • authority: 80

To Mary, on Her Saying That She Should Never Recover from Her Present Illness

Evidence: 20 • authority: 80

Can a Robot Wake a Sleeping Person Up by Giving Him or Her a Nudge?

Evidence: 20 • authority: 80

Torts. May a Wife Whose Treatment of Her Husband Causes Him to Desert Her Recover against Third Person Whose False Statements Induced Her to So Treat Him?

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A Rational Ambiguity Averse Person Will Never Display Her Ambiguity Aversion. Suppose a decision maker (DM), in the language of Anscombe and Aumann (1963), has preferences over acts (horse-race lotteries) that satisfy the von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944) axioms for objective lotteries (constant acts) and Anscombe and Aumann's (1963) Axioms of Reversal of Order and Dominance. This DM may have preferences that accommodate ambiguity aversion. Suppose the DM can choose acts objectively randomly (by flipping her own fair coin, for instance). Suppose the DM is able to (has the willpower to) commit to her ex-ante choice of a possibly self-generated random act. Then there is no set of decision pr…

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