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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Hugo Adam Bedau

Born: September 23, 1926
Died: August 13, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Known for:
- In Spite Of Innocence (1992)
- From Critical Thinking to Argument
- Thinking and writing about philosophy (1996)
- Killing as Punishment (2004)






