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MATT WELCH ON JOYCE CAROL OATES ON MARY JO KOPECHNE: ?The ends are always worth a few strangled mea?

By Glenn Reynolds

MATT WELCH ON JOYCE CAROL OATES ON MARY JO KOPECHNE: “The ends are always worth a few strangled means, especially to those wielding or sympathizing with power. If you’re openly musing whether the unwilling, unjust sacrifice of an innocent is worth a broad set of alleged legislative improvements, you’re not asking a morally challenging question, you’re answering it.”

Related: “Benign paternalism and droit du seigneur are two halves of the same coin: The former has excused the latter in monarchical societies through the ages. It’s distressing to see so many alleged ‘democrats’ embrace it here.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).