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...finally, we must remember that at the heart of the indecency bill is an arbitrary moral judgment of what is good speech and what is bad speech. It's disturbing that 200 years of democracy have not properly instilled the sentiment that the market place of ideas, and not a heavy-handed government ordinance, should regulate how people express themselves...
...second assertion, however, that all laws involve an imposition of morality, is to me the more pernicious of the two. Lat argues that preventing people from getting a divorce has the same characteristic of moral judgment as every other...
...collective judgment on these people who had been brought to the front by the force of history was that on the whole, they were a bunch of drunken thugs," he said...
...these questions, the experts testify in different ways," Horwitz says. "It justifiably creates a degree of cynicism of whether [the witness] is testifying for the person who pays the piper or is giving a dispassionate, disinterested professional judgment...
There is something morally repulsive about the talks, but it's not anything Bennett or his co-crusader Senator Joseph Lieberman has seen fit to mention. Watch for a few hours, and you get the claustrophobic sense of lives that have never seen the light of some external judgment, of people who have never before been listened to, and certainly never been taken seriously if they were. "What kind of people would let themselves be humiliated like this?" is often asked, sniffily, by the shows' detractors. And the answer, for the most part, is people who are so needy...