Law in Contemporary Society

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A Touch of Moderation

I am no rational actor. I make an effort to ‘vote with my dollars,’ but there is no doubt I have contributed money to things and people I despise. But there is no rational actor. There is no identifiable value system-based rationality lying at the bottom of the human psyche. No one can fully, truly explain why we do what we do. Obviously, some of our decisions reflect personal experiences. I am the product of a home that was first marred by domestic violence, and then single parent. I am more sensitive to the issue than most. Nonetheless, innumerable Americans executed a full 180-degree turn from social media activists in September to social gathering connoisseurs in May. That cannot be denied, and it should matter.

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The strength of the draft is the forcefulness and clarity of the rhetoric. The argument, however, could use basic clarification. The point we are most clearly receiving is that some people who paid money to watch Floyd Mayweather fight another boxer probably (and, to your mind, inconsistently) demanded that another well-remunerated thug be punished for hand-to-head violence against his fiancee. But the reader is aware that many more of the people who called for or approved the NFL's punishing Rice never bought a ticket to any boxing match, or would. So it isn't clear whether you are offering an example of the general fact that consumption patters are not well-correlated with peoples' conscious social and political beliefs, commenting on a particular form of confusion among people who like to watch fistfights (without discussing the unconscious motivations of boxing fans), or something else.

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