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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:09 AM

  macgupta

  Someone freely wanting to do something doesn't necessarily mean that that something is right.

  Maybe - but assuming they're not hurting anyone else, it does mean you should mind your own business and worry about whether your own conduct is "right."

  I know it's not as fun and titillating to want to control your own life and not other people's, but that's pretty much the foundation for a free society, so you should try.

  As to whether someone is coerced or not, maybe you don't know until that someone is in a witness protection program.

  From the article: "The person that was involved in the conduct sat [in court] with a smile on her face and wrote your honor a letter saying, 'Judge, this was a beautiful part of my life.'"

  But she's just a little lady -- she can hardly be expected to judge for herself what she wants and likes.

  Fortunately, we don't have to approve of the porn producer in any way, shape or form to get Glenn's point - which is that if make-believe sadomasochism merits three years in Federal Prison, then why are the Administration's torturers walking free?

  As I recall, you and I already went around and around on this same issue in the context of your insistence that you didn't trust Eliot Spitzer's prostitutes to decide what was best for them, so let's agree on this point you make here.

  —GlennGreenwald Read GlennGreenwald's other letters
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