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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      Joking aside, I remain baffled by Williamson's position. He says abortion is an "an absolute evil" & "in some ways it's worse than your typical murder" but will accept laws that will allow 90% of abortions to continuehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kevin-williamson-the-punishment-i-favor-for-abortion/2018/04/25/5001c6cc-48c5-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?utm_term=.00573bc6465f …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      I mean if abortion is "an absolute evil" and "worse than your typical murder" why all the federalist foofaraw about New Jersey & Utah having different laws. They do for murder to some extent, but they both punish it severely.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      If abortion is murder, why tolerate, out of political expediency, 90% of abortions. And as you move to restrict, why allow some states to have strong ban and others to be lax. That makes no sense.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      And Williamson continues to drop the suggestion that he wants to punish women who have abortion but doesn't want to spell out what they would be. That's very strange.pic.twitter.com/ARZgrg7JsE

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      Williamson is willing to accept large numbers of abortion for foreseeable future, because total ban is "50- or even 100-year project." In other words, he's pro-life after we are all dead. But thinks abortion is worse than regular murder. That's not a coherent position.

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    6. Jeryl Bier‏Verified account @JerylBier 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Did those who worked slowly and incrementally for the abolition of slavery over decades hold an incoherent position?

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @JerylBier

      You might want to google "American Civil War" if you think slavery ended slowly and incrementally.

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    8. Jeryl Bier‏Verified account @JerylBier 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Oh come on. That's a non sequitur. My point is many worked for decades to end slavery without resorting to killing slave owners and burning down plantations. Were they hypocrites? Would you respect Kevin Williamson if he advocated kidnapping pregnant women to save their babies?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @JerylBier

      Abolitionists took direct action against slavery (underground railroad) that involved breaking the law. Which is what you would do if you think something is a great moral evil. And of course there were slave revolts.

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    10. Jeryl Bier‏Verified account @JerylBier 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Right. And at times pro-lifers have tried to prevent women from entering abortion clinics and they've been treated like terrorists. Do you respect them for the intellectual consistency?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018
      Replying to @JerylBier

      If you believe abortion is murder, then becoming a terrorist is logically consistent, yes. But since very few pro-lifers become terrorists, that shows very few actually believe own rhetoric.

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        2. Jeryl Bier‏Verified account @JerylBier 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          and those who think Bush was a "war criminal" and pretty much Hitler for attacking Iraq are inconsistent because they didn't try to assassinate him?

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        3. Lunar Lad‏ @MegaUltraMoon 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @JerylBier @HeerJeet

          get em

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        1. Chance Gardener‏ @ChanceBGardener 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JerylBier

          There was only one John Brown.

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        1. Chance Gardener‏ @ChanceBGardener 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JerylBier

          Someone should check to see if Jeet said he believed the Iraq war to be an illegal war destroying innocent lives, and what he did about it.

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        2. Jeryl Bier‏Verified account @JerylBier 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jeryl Bier Retweeted Jeet Heer

          You say Kissinger was a "war criminal" - would a US version of Operation Valkyrie against Hitler in the 1940s been justified to stop him?https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/698003970430758912 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          Replying to @emjayemjay
          @emjayemjay The mass murder and war crimes are discussed in other tweets in this thread.
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018
          Replying to @JerylBier

          We have laws against war crimes, so I'd want Kissinger to be arrested, as Pinochet was.

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