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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-08-09

"Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offence for which he plies the lash." - Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great

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posted by [identity profile] lothie.livejournal.com at 12:05pm on 2007-08-09
Hear hear!
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posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 12:19pm on 2007-08-09
Did you de-randomize this selection, or is the aptness to recent NOT GAY Republicans just a coincidence?
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posted by [identity profile] nosebeepbear.livejournal.com at 08:04pm on 2007-08-09
Um. Aren't all punishable crimes optional? So all lawmakers are murderers and thieves? Despite the obvious joke there, I'm not sure I agree...though I think I do agree with what was actually supposed to be the point :).
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