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[Ric Hod]

With perverse injustice, a wave of anti-american verbal nastiness - accompanied by nice, liberal self-doubt - was triggered by the physical anti-Americanism of September 11th. We hear talk of Coca-Cola, MacDonalds and other unpopular icons of supposed American culture. These are not what I would be sorry to lose, and they are relatively trivial. Modern America is the principal inheritor, and today's leading exponent, of European  scientific and rational civilization. And that means the highest civilization ever, not excluding the greeks and the Chinese.
Richard Dawkins 9.27.01

"If we execute murderers and there is in fact no social deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call." 
John McAdams - Marquette University/Department of Political Science, on deterrence.


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