Good observation! I missed that little reference, and you have an excellent point.

I have seen many people whose political positions are rooted in self-justification, suppressing some personal guilt, or working out some other psychological twitch.

I have been trying to avoid dragging in the psychology and lifestyles of the various people involved in some of these controversial cases I'm discussing, although Lord knows it would be easy enough. For example, in the post on selecting a child's genes for deafness, I considered the sexual preferences of the "parents" largely irrelevant, although the self-indulgent nature of most activists may count for something there.

Heck, if I'd wanted to drop a few cheap shots on Judith Levine I'd link to this deep and enlightening article, or maybe this one.

She apparently was once also a member of "No More Nice Girls, which is apparently some kind of performance art group. I can't tell since their home page is a solid block of liberal arts blatherspeak which conveys absolutely no information at all.