Word: dworkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing basic to all pornography," feminist author Andrea Dworkin said, "is the idea that 'She wants it'--she 'wants' to be beaten, she 'wants' to be forced, she 'wants' to be raped...brutalized...hurt...
...Dworkin recited a litany of things women do to "lead men on"--go to the movies alone, smile, tell men the time of day, get married, sit on their fathers' laps, and even the way they dress, walk and talk...
Legal Scholar Ronald Dworkin [Sept. 5] believes "laws should not be founded on personal moral judgments." He also believes judges should go beyond the explicitly written law and "range widely, asking fundamental questions and applying ethical principles as well as written legal rules to the case." These two statements, taken together, indicate that he believes the people, via legislative bodies, should not decide what is morally right and wrong for society, but that this power should be left to the judges. Thus, to a limited extent, he advocates an increase in government by men as opposed to government...
...Professor Dworkin says, "a qualified white has no inherent right to be admitted to medical school ahead of a less-qualified minority member," then we abrogate the public's right to the highest quality medical care. Further, if "the right to be treated as an equal does not mean the right to equal treatment," then what exactly does it mean...
...Professor George Christie may be right when he says: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions." If so, then America's courts need Ronald Dworkin very badly. The Pledge of Allegiance says "justice for all," not "justifications...