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- From: dreitman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Daniel R. Reitman, Attorney to Be)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism,alt.dads-rights,soc.men,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: False allegations of abuse / Chesler's book...
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 14:27 PST
- Organization: University of Oregon
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- In article <BzKF5s.DG2@world.std.com>,
- srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller) writes...
- >Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >>I am *not* saying that I
- >>would consider it a good idea to censor her book, I *do* believe that we
- >>should do *something* about books that instruct people on how to break the
- >>law!!. Also note that this distinction is the reason why I have cross
- >>posted to misc.legal.
- >
- >It's a good distinction. For what it's worth, in law school the
- >professors (notably Nadine Strossen, president of ACLU) usually
- >suggested what they called "counterspeech." That is, if A writes a
- >how-to book on crime, B can write a book deploring how-to books on
- >crime and the people that apply A's lessons. Theoretically, the
- >members of an enlightened society see the wisdom of one book over
- >the other (whichever they decide is which), and make an informed
- >decision about their actions.
-
- This is beginning to sound like the debate over _Final Exit_.
-
- Daniel Reitman
-