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Friday 31 October 2008

Let’s try, for the sake of argument, to accept the premise of this ad: Abortion is indistinguishable from killing babies and politicians who support abortion rights are the kind of people who would do nothing and pass by if they saw a baby — a poor, adorably helpless baby — abandoned in the path of an oncoming train. The people who composed, prepared, funded and shipped this mailer do not believe any of that. They’re not lying, exactly. They like the idea that something like this might be true. They want the world to be like this. They want the world to be easily divided between heroes and villains, and they want to be able to count themselves on the heroic side of that divide. And if you really, really want something to be true — if you really, really, deep in your heart, wish you deserved to be able to think of yourself as the heroic rescuer of imperiled babies — then declaring it to be true isn’t really lying, is it? But however much they want to believe this, they don’t. They can’t. slacktivist

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