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PREEMPTING ONESELF:
The Right and the Duty to Forestall One’s Own Wrongdoing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 1999
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The best test of whether an intellectual problem is genuinely worthwhile is whether there exists a Jewish joke on point. By that quite exacting standard, the problem of preemptive action is certainly an important one. To be sure, the joke that comes to mind is not especially funny, but that is not what counts. It is the existence of the joke, not its funniness, that matters.
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