http://paulmitchinson.com/archives/116 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:28:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://paulmitchinson.com/archives/116/comment-page-1#comment-25 paulmitchinson.com » Blog Archive » Carlin Romano on William Bennett Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:07:02 +0000 http://paulmitchinson.com/?p=116#comment-25 [...] This is such a sleepy blog that I doubt folks like Carlin Romano read it. Still, it’s a wonderful coincidence that, two weeks after my post comparing Romano with William Bennett, Romano himself has weighed in with a defense of the radio host — or as Romano refers to him, an “academic philosopher by training.” Bennett … tried to spotlight what he considered the wrongheadedness of the argument — the notion, by his natural-law beliefs, that good economic consequences (lower crime) of an immoral act (abortion) can justify the immoral act — by countering with a more extreme hypothetical proposition or conditional. [...] [...] This is such a sleepy blog that I doubt folks like Carlin Romano read it. Still, it’s a wonderful coincidence that, two weeks after my post comparing Romano with William Bennett, Romano himself has weighed in with a defense of the radio host — or as Romano refers to him, an “academic philosopher by training.” Bennett … tried to spotlight what he considered the wrongheadedness of the argument — the notion, by his natural-law beliefs, that good economic consequences (lower crime) of an immoral act (abortion) can justify the immoral act — by countering with a more extreme hypothetical proposition or conditional. [...]

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