Comments on: Live by the Study, Die by the Study http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5783.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Fri, 25 May 2012 05:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Joshua http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5783.html/comment-page-1#comment-228341 Joshua Fri, 16 May 2008 12:33:57 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=5783#comment-228341 <i>Still, it will be interesting to see secular-leftist opponents of the death penalty squirm their way out of this one. They pride themselves on being data-driven members of the “reality based” community.</i> On the other hand, secular-leftists also pride themselves on being morally superior to and more "civilized" than the rest of us, so it's as likely as not that they will simply cast this study aside and recast their death-penalty opposition as another of their straight-up quasi-religious moral crusades, alongside gun control, multiculturalism and anti-war. Still, it will be interesting to see secular-leftist opponents of the death penalty squirm their way out of this one. They pride themselves on being data-driven members of the “reality based” community.

On the other hand, secular-leftists also pride themselves on being morally superior to and more “civilized” than the rest of us, so it’s as likely as not that they will simply cast this study aside and recast their death-penalty opposition as another of their straight-up quasi-religious moral crusades, alongside gun control, multiculturalism and anti-war.

]]> By: James R. Rummel http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5783.html/comment-page-1#comment-228116 James R. Rummel Thu, 15 May 2008 23:53:05 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=5783#comment-228116 Good post, Shannon. And a great point about how it is dubious that the studies cited actually prove what they say they prove. James Good post, Shannon. And a great point about how it is dubious that the studies cited actually prove what they say they prove.

James

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