J. Budziszewski - The Revenge of Conscience (1999)

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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

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There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.

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