Thursday, September 29, 2005

Our Moral Arbiter (BA Williams, PhD, philosophy, UT Austin)

Via Nick Burbules:

Bill Bennett (self-anointed moral arbiter of our culture): for shame
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006

[I]f "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then added again, "but the crime rate would go down."