“Martha Nussbaum is a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago.”
Ethics? What a joke.
Why is it these 'ethics' types are usually the most immoral dogs out there?
It’s like clockwork. “My Euro-trash friends don’t get it and they’re smarter and better than us.”
Start here; it’s not called the ‘Atlanta Urinal Constipation’ without good reason, LOL!
Hey Martha, regardless of the law or what he did to his family, it’s a question of integrity and character....traits that the leftists don’t see as a high priority given their candidates/politicians. If the man can lie to and to his family, what else has he lied about? Cheated on?
And this moron teaches ethics at UoC...un-friggin-believable.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Where were the complaints about America puritanism when Spitzer was putting people in jail for being in the prostitution business?
And btw, what the hell makes Europe such a model of enlightenment, given the shape of Western civilization there.
Nussbaum has always been a lefty fembot kook.
wonder if she’s kin to Hedda?
that said....decriminalizing prostitution in areas that would like to by local cultural standards is probably ok for me in a controlled way
but that has little to do with Elliot’s transgressions which have yet to be fully disclosed....like use of public funds or transport is my guess
My parents emigrated from Europe and this behavior would have been condemned by any of our ancestors.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. And to believe she teaches! Although, school is in session and she says she's cavorting around the Eurozone. Probably another one of those who doesn't really teach.
Some of these liberal navel-gazers sound like satire, but sadly they actually believe it.
Sir:
I submit to you that Dr. Martha Nussbaum, a Professor on your faculty at the Law School, is so willfully blind to the legal and ethical implications of Eliot Spitzer's behavior to render her unfit to carry on in her current role.
As Attorney General, then as Governor, Eliot Spitzer was directly responsible for enforcing the laws of NY. The actions so far revealed in the general press indicate that he knowingly and aggressively broke money laundering laws which is a federal offense; had this been his only offense, he should have been indicted and removed from office. Professor Nussbaum should understand the ethical implications of willfully breaking the law when in a position of public trust and responsibility.
However, he also engaged the services of a prostitute, not once but many times; if the public record is correct, this was done while he simultaneously was prosecuting and imprisoning others for the same crimes. The question of whether or not this was done in conspiracy with the Gambino crime family, whose name was associated with this case, has not been answered publicly, but cannot improve his standing whether yes or no.
Aside from the marriage vow he made to his wife and broke, he has violated the several oaths of office he took to be in his current position.
Based on the article cited above, Professor Nussbaum is either willfully ignorant or contemptibly foolish. If she cannot divine the manifold legal and ethical violations committed by Eliot Spitzer, then she is even less honorable than him. For her to be instructing prospective lawyers on ethics is a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both, in my opinion.
I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this matter, although I suspect you will be busy responding to other inquiries on this.
Respectfully,
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LIBERALS ARE RACIST! ;-)
Well, yes it is, and Nussbaum is showing the same sort of willful myopia here as so many did during the Lewinski affair. Spitzer was more than a private citizen and this is about much more than sex for cash. The abuse of public office in both cases was entirely the issue, and if this is something that our jaded European cousins find quite acceptable then just perhaps it explains a few things about government there.
Is Nussbaum aware that we were supposed to laugh at Capt. Renault's hypocrisy in Casablanca?
What about GOP Senator David Vitter(diaper boy) and GOP Senator Larry Craig(queer boy)?
The problem with Spitzer is that he was more than happy to use that Puritanical streak to his advantage in his own witch hunts - that’s where he betrayed the public trust.