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Reagan is a Bioinformatics PhD living and working in Little Rock, AR. Anything posted here represents his opinions and in no way represents the views of his employers. Anyone who says otherwise is looking for a fight.

His science-focused weblog is "Let's Get Personal" and can be found at http://reagank.com

This is a photo posted by Reagan on Thu Jan 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM
It's reblogged from jamiek and originally posted by jamiek
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jamiek: From Ron Sylvester’s excellent live-tweeting of the Scott Roeder trial. That came after he explained how the man he killed, Dr. George Tiller, lived in a gated community and had security at his clinic, and so was unreachable there. Roeder did have a choice, of course, the choice not to shoot and kill someone he disagreed with to further a political agenda. But he made his twisted moral calculus and figured he was justified. To say he had no choice, as if his decision was so clearly right, turns my stomach. Does anyone else find it ironic that the defense this shitbag is using is the same “moral relativism” that the extreme right has been decrying for the last 4 decades?

jamiek:

From Ron Sylvester’s excellent live-tweeting of the Scott Roeder trial.

That came after he explained how the man he killed, Dr. George Tiller, lived in a gated community and had security at his clinic, and so was unreachable there. Roeder did have a choice, of course, the choice not to shoot and kill someone he disagreed with to further a political agenda. But he made his twisted moral calculus and figured he was justified. To say he had no choice, as if his decision was so clearly right, turns my stomach.

Does anyone else find it ironic that the defense this shitbag is using is the same “moral relativism” that the extreme right has been decrying for the last 4 decades?