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Ronald Dworkin

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Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.
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"Pornography: An Exchange", response to Catharine MacKinnon, New York Review of Books 41(5), March 3, 1994.

 
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