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Sincerity in Moral Objections

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

If people claim to object to X as a general matter, but their objections to X are raised only when someone from the opposite political party can be blamed, and if they likewise ignore much more substantial instances of X, then I suspect that their objections to X are rooted more in political partisanship than in a sincere moral position. Thus, for example, when many commentators were complaining about the Patriot Act provision allowing the FBI to subpoena a suspect's library records, my test for whether they were really that worried about privacy was whether they raised similar objections to the fact that all of us (not just terrorism suspects) have to file much more intrusive tax forms with the government every single year, providing numerous details that are overwhelmingly more private than anything that could conceivably be in a library record...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).