The moment you have protected an individual you have protected society which is made up of individuals. The moment you have lost the individual you have lost everything.
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When morals are put aside where ideology doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that you support the leader, you know, so there is a breakdown in society, and and then suddenly anything goes, and I think it's a very dangerous path to take.
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Detention not as a place where people wait for their cases to be decided, but as a tool to pressure them to abandon those cases and accept deportation.
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But now you're not talking about abolition, you're talking about the first amendment. You're talking about the right to petition the government which is protected. And so he becomes a defender of the abolitionists not on necessarily on the grounds of abolition but on the grounds of free speech.
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