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By Stuart Buck, Esq.

From Theodore Dalrymple's "a href="http://www.amazon.com/Praise-Prejudice-Necessity-Preconceived-Ideas/dp/1594032025"In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas/a": blockquoteA strange kind of moral fervor supervenes, an illustration of a phenomenon akin to a law of thermodynamics: namely, ithe law of the conservation of righteous indignation/i, which, if it does not attach to one thing, will attach to another. It is as if the total fund of such indignation is of constant size. As traditional moral prohibitions, inhibitions, and considerations are destroyed by the gnawing criticism of philosophical disputatiousness, new ones rush in to fill the vacuum./blockquote

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).