Hentoff on Horowitz

[Gordon Fitch]

Yoshie:
> >Nat Hentoff?  A man opposed to women's right to abortion -- an
> >essential part of reproductive freedoms -- like Hentoff doesn't have
> >much to say to me about freedom of any kind.  Women who die from
> >unsafe & illegal abortions or unsafe childbirths from unwanted
> >pregnancies don't have any voice, much less freedom of speech.

Justin Schwartz:
> Yoshie, it should be obvious that just because someone has a bad position on 
> X doesn't mean he's wrong about Y.  ...

If it's bad enough, and if we're talking about logically
consistent political philosophy, then the position on X may
very strongly imply that the person's position on Y will be
uninteresting.  Our time on earth is limited; therefore,
why waste any of it reading Nat Hentoff?