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Responsibility guilt in the ground of true authority, January 26th, 2022.

So this is the second time in the space of a few weeks that I will be responding to some

comments by Aaron Rand.

And so I thought I should explain at the front end what I'm up to here.

I like Aaron, and I like his project, and appreciate his cultural analysis a great deal.

And so I'm eager for this to be filed under, quote, iron sharpening iron, close quote.

When we get the iron sharp enough, we can then make our machetes out of it, stand shoulder

to shoulder, and hack our way out of here.

Where is here, you ask?

The thickets of the culture smug confusion, of course, abortion and punishment.

If you want to get up to speed on some of this, you can read my comments here and here.

A few weeks ago, in his newsletter, Aaron mentioned me in passing, and introduced a couple

of quotes from me saying, quote, surprisingly, the ultra conservative Doug Wilson also argues

almost all women who abort their babies are victims.

And after quoting a couple of my observations, he then says this, again, what's notable

is not just that these high profile pro-life organizations and people think women shouldn't

be punished for procuring an abortion, but their extreme reticence to assign even partial

moral blame to them.

Aaron ran newsletter number 60.

This is actually a novel sensation, and I find that I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

I am an ultra conservative, and here I am, taking friendly criticism from the right.

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