[lbo-talk] Obama defends capital punishment for child rape; Nationapologizes for him

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jun 27 06:05:47 PDT 2008


Chris Doss wrote:
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> If this is true, then most people have had sociopathic tendencies throughout recorded history. I'm very leery of the implied use of the views of early 21st-century Western Europeans as the definition of sanity.

I agre with your general point, but it is irrelevant here, because we are talking _only_ about the views of early 21st-century Western Europeans. And in that context, WD's proposition holds.

Carrol



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