| | Leiter Reports: A Group Blog: Response to Comments on Civil Liberties as Religion |
 | | History does not contain nuclear bombs the size of oranges, genetically engineered smallpox virus that is vaccine-proof, and an Islamist terrorist (Bin Laden) who visited a cleric in Saudi Arabia to obtain--successfully--the cleric's approval to wage nuclear war against the West. |
 | | Posner should concede that this is his real complaint, and he should address it unmasked by mischaracterization of the position of most of civil libertarians. |
 | | There are philosophical as well as legal reasons why this statements is problematic, but rather than bore with long passages of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (lawyers hate that sort of thing), consider the case of the battered woman who insists on returning to her abusive mate. |
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