From Chuck Klosterman’s (a/k/a “The Ethicist”) smug response to an ethical question posed by “K.M.” of Holden, Massachusetts:

I don’t think voicing your opinion falls anywhere on the ethical continuum … Ask [your two sons] if they’ve seriously considered the consequences of bringing new humans into a flawed world, while conceding that your personal view on this subject is (and should be) essentially irrelevant to whatever they ultimately decide to do.

Since Mr Klosterman himself is only offering his personal opinions to his readers’ various ethical queries, doesn’t his point above apply equally to the contents of his own weekly ethics column? (For the record, Klosterman’s self-refuting words appear (without irony) on page 13 of The New York Times Magazine on Sunday, 6 July 2014.)

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