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Jamie McCarthy via Irregulars irregulars@lists.tbtf.com via easysrs.org

Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 3:00 PM

to IRRegulars

I would expand on this by pointing to Wilhoit's Law, from 2018. I think this portion of it is exactly correct:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind,

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