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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about…

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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…
I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool…
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples…
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old…
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its…
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -…
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous…
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…

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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool… — Richard Posner
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