Those interested in slippery slope arguments (which must, by now, include almost all Volokh readers) won’t want to miss Julian Sanchez’s post carefully distinguishing slippery slope arguments from the reductio ad absurdum.
Those interested in distinguished University of Chicago libertarians, comics, Neil Gaiman, and intellectual property(a set which I’m sure includes at least somebody besides me) should also read Julian’s post here, and follow the links. The opinion is terrifically entertaining, but I’m disappointed that its author didn’t take the opportunity presented to clear up the related Miracleman mess— or even to lay it out in the same way that he laid out the story in Spawn and the story about Spawn.
Curiously enough, the villain of the story, Todd McFarlane (ruled against by the aforementioned distinguished University of Chicago libertarian) is already familiar to non-comics-reading Conspiracy fans, as Eugene co-authored an amicus brief on his behalf in an unrelated comics case. I see no contradiction between thinking McFarlane was in the right (crude, but in the right) in the Tony Twist case and thinking he’s in the wrong on both Spawn and Miracleman.
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