Hitchens responds to critics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 25 12:54:51 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>But just because a lot of crime has root causes doesn't mean that there
>aren't some areas of violence and criminality- the Jeffrey Dahmers of the
>world as an example - that escape almost any useful causal barometer.

Let me see if I have this right: because Dahmer did something horrible, trying to explain it would be to defame the memory of his victims? Or behavior like his is truly inexplicable? Or...?

Doug



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