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SteveW

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6. It's more than pigheadedness. I think Huxley summed it up best:
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jan 2012

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' -- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894-1963), Chrome Yellow, 1921.

We who have been brought up on the secular Bible-quote of our time, "Follow the Money Trail," have lost sight of the sweat, passion, and hatred which motivates these prohibitionist causes. We remain woefully and willfully ignorant by reducing all to economic determinism.

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