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New page: :''Warning: graphic language follows.'' The '''Speluncean Explorers''' is a hypothetical thought experiment, consisting of an invented series of facts, and a series of judicial [[...
:''Warning: graphic language follows.''
The '''Speluncean Explorers''' is a [[hypothetical]] [[thought experiment]], consisting of an invented series of facts, and a series of judicial [[opinion|opinions]] from invented justices of the "Newgarth" Supreme Court.
In the hypothetical fact set, a group of explorers is caught in a subterranean cave-in. Rescue is on its way, but the explorers will run out of food and all die, unless they are able to eat. Upon evacuation, it is found that one of the explorers was killed and ''eaten'' in an act of [[cannibalism]]. The remaining explorers are charged with murder, and convicted.
Upon [[appeal]], the Supreme Court considers whether extreme circumstances justify criminal acts, whether politics matters to law, and other important [[law|legal philosophies]].<ref>http://www.nullapoena.de/stud/explorers.html</ref>
The case is often taught in political philosophy classes at a [[university]], to ask students to consider the intersection of law and morality.
==References==
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The '''Speluncean Explorers''' is a [[hypothetical]] [[thought experiment]], consisting of an invented series of facts, and a series of judicial [[opinion|opinions]] from invented justices of the "Newgarth" Supreme Court.
In the hypothetical fact set, a group of explorers is caught in a subterranean cave-in. Rescue is on its way, but the explorers will run out of food and all die, unless they are able to eat. Upon evacuation, it is found that one of the explorers was killed and ''eaten'' in an act of [[cannibalism]]. The remaining explorers are charged with murder, and convicted.
Upon [[appeal]], the Supreme Court considers whether extreme circumstances justify criminal acts, whether politics matters to law, and other important [[law|legal philosophies]].<ref>http://www.nullapoena.de/stud/explorers.html</ref>
The case is often taught in political philosophy classes at a [[university]], to ask students to consider the intersection of law and morality.
==References==
<references/>
[[category:law]]
[[category:philosophy]]