praktik
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UPDATE: Flanagan offers 'unreserved' apology for 'child porn' comments - Inside Politics
Geez... I think a clear case of ideology leading someone to a poorly thought out statement... feel bad for the guy cause I think he was thinking in a classically libertarian way about the whole issue, not really thinking all the way through of course since child pornography, by definition, requires the abuse of children to make it (unless animated or illustrated - which is where Flanagan would have been on firmer, but still shakey ground).
Lesson learned people. Ideological principles are fine, but don't make them a suicide pact! Flanagan did, and now he burned up all his prospects as a result!
Geez... I think a clear case of ideology leading someone to a poorly thought out statement... feel bad for the guy cause I think he was thinking in a classically libertarian way about the whole issue, not really thinking all the way through of course since child pornography, by definition, requires the abuse of children to make it (unless animated or illustrated - which is where Flanagan would have been on firmer, but still shakey ground).
Lesson learned people. Ideological principles are fine, but don't make them a suicide pact! Flanagan did, and now he burned up all his prospects as a result!
