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Hooray for Hypocrites!
A new book dares to defend the phoney-baloneys behind the drug war and much, much more.
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reason: You dedicate the book to your father, the Rev. Robert Lott, "whose hypocrisies are microscopic." If he is praiseworthy because he isn't really a hypocrite, then should we really be defending hypocrisy?
Lott: It's possible to defend hypocrisy while admiring people who live lives of rigorous—but not foolish—consistency.
reason: Any other parting thoughts?
Lott: Would it be hypocritical of me to ask everybody to buy my book? I think not. But if it was, I'd still defend it.
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