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Sir: David Lovibond is wrong to claim that 'the burgeoning ethnic minorities cleave to their languages, dress, way of life and, most importantly, their religions' ('The Real Racists', 10 April). The original immigrant generation may try to, but their children and grandchildren almost to a man do not.
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Torture is wrong
From Guy HerbertSir: Alan Dershowitz's own views (Letters, 1 May) are scarier than those attributed to him by Paul Robinson. Professor Dershowitz appears to be saying that torture is wrong, but that the state should adopt, approve and regulate it in our name because it will happen anyway.This is perilously close to a Nietzschean view that morality is only for slaves, and that godlike judges (and law professors?) may dispose of it as they see fit. Perhaps other abuses of state power by its servants could be brought under the same system, and judges could issue individual suspe...See the full content of this document
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