I mentioned below that sometimes people pass from trying to make consent the sole criterion of the Good to making it the sole criterion of the Real<\/a>.<\/p>\n When that happens, our definition of \u201cconsent\u201d subtly morphs until it means the same thing as \u201cwill\u201d. That\u2019s why people like Mary Cheney think you can simply will into existence things like gay \u201cmarriage\u201d when there is and can be no such thing. <\/p>\n It\u2019s also why her Dad looks for all the world like he imagined you could create a connection between Saddam and al-Quaeda by torture where none existed. Like father<\/a>, like daughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n I mentioned below that sometimes people pass from trying to make consent the sole criterion of the Good to making it the sole criterion of the Real. When that happens, our definition of \u201cconsent\u201d subtly morphs until it means the same thing as \u201cwill\u201d. That\u2019s why people like Mary Cheney think you can simply will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n