I'm enough of an opera fan that I feel pathos for the darkest sort of person, for political monsters. To argue for this in public, though...
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@DougSaunders Ford's a political monster and overall terrible person, and addiction is a disease. These concepts are not mutually exclusive1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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. @fortyfs Of course addiction is a disease. That's not the subject here. It's Toronto's tendency to pity Ford as a victim of a disease.
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@DougSaunders @fortyfs For Ford the addict we can feel sympathy, for Ford the political actor complete scorn. Yes, not mutually exclussive3 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
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@DougSaunders @fortyfs Ford does use addiction in way you suggest but we don't have to follow his lead. We can make distinctions.
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