"I wonder how many of them would have the courage of their convictions if that
were the likely outcome of their little legal-literary exercise."
I suspect that large numbers of them -- or of their fellow travelers -- would
be willing to suffer legal sanctions for their opinions. I think that they are
wrong, but I see no particular reason to suppose that they are insincere. It
is always nice to imagine that those we disagree with are also cowards or
hypocrits, but reality has a nasty way of refusing to script itself as
precisely the sort of morality play that we might prefer.
NBO
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Nathan Oman
"It is a misleading cult that teaches that the remedy of our ills is to have
the law give over, once and for all, the strivings of the centuries for a
rational coherence, and sink back in utter weariness to a justice that is the
flickering reflection of the impulse of the moment."
-- Benjamin Cardozo
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