A Man's Only Goal Was to Get One Good Puncher

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A 33-year-old graduate student drives drunk and kills a young girl. The victim's parents are distraught, they hire private investigators to find the killer. They discover it was john who caused the death of their daughter. He is sentenced to die by firing squad for his crime.

Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s strawman attacks on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, True Grit, and Michael Dukakis. Though they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a guy with shiny boots.

Links

Sam Harris in the Huffington Post.

“Brute force is better with Nazis.”

The answer that launched a series of Bush presidencies.

“This ain’t no coon hunt.”

·Justice and Honor, Tamler’s Psychology Today blog post.

"Partial Desert" blog post at Flickers of Freedom.

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