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In My Neighborhood, Everyone Had An Opinion On The Local Cantor. You Didn't Go To A Synagogue To Listen To The Rabbi's Sermon. You Went To Listen To The Cantor. It Was Like A Concert.

Individuals Have The Right To Pick And Choose Which Expressions To Condemn, Which To Praise And Which To Say Nothing About. Governments, However, Must Remain Neutral As To The Content Of Expression. And Governments Must Protect The Rights Of All To Express Even The Most Despicable Of Views.

If Torture Is Going To Be Administered As A Last Resort In The Ticking-bomb Case, To Save Enormous Numbers Of Lives, It Ought To Be Done Openly, With Accountability, With Approval By The President Of The United States Or By A Supreme Court Justice.

For Most People, The Question Why Be Good - As Distinguished From Merely Law Abiding - Is A Simple One. Because God Commands It, Because The Bible Requires It, Because Good People Go To Heaven And Bad People Go To Hell.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.