{"id":14196,"date":"2026-06-16T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:02:07","slug":"john-locke-on-the-right-to-self-defense-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/john-locke-on-the-right-to-self-defense-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Locke on the Right to Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/john-locke-on-the-right-to-self-defense?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e233_tv2_tp1_a1demoo4pks6bh&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawSegq9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkOTBvMXVJYXQxdGN4bGxic3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoDMvNXz4b24bN7V2yL_4ydmnUXZoqcWBaqr2WssUfr4IkrX6QcHR-2i9Syo_aem_F9g_lJ6KZ2zpHAIFhLsn8w\">latest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calm, clear, rigorous, and free of invective. Which is not to say that invective does not have important uses. Different strokes for different folks. For thugs, slugs. The hard fist of unreason. For the reasonable, the open-handed, loving caress of sweet reason. Civility for the civil. Respect for the respectful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. Calm, clear, rigorous, and free of invective. Which is not to say that invective does not have important uses. Different strokes for different folks. For thugs, slugs. The hard fist of unreason. For the reasonable, the open-handed, loving caress of sweet reason. Civility for the civil. Respect for the respectful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,314,311,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-locke","category-rights-and-duties","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14197,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions\/14197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}