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365 w/ David French "People with Capacities, Roe Reconsidered, Malignant Forces"

The Fifth Column

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The Standard Isn't Commanded Violence

He could go to a jury and say, hutchinson is lying. I didn't ever say that about the mags. Or he can say, look, when i told them to fight, i was specifically using it the way politicians use the language of fight. So in other words, it's what did you intend to happen? And that's where you're going. The standard isn't so he's not saved by using the language patriotically and peacefully, because the standard isn't commanded violence and was likely to produce violence. That's the sort of most basic function of it.

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