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> You will find that there is a hell of a lot of thought that goes into opinions, and there is much less predetermined ideology than the way these things often
by lawnchair_larry 11y ago
> You will find that there is a hell of a lot of thought that goes into opinions, and there is much less predetermined ideology than the way these things often get painted.
Yeah, retconning to twist everything that seeks to disturb one's bigoted and repressive worldview does take an extraordinary amount of thought, credit where it is due. I encourage everyone to not just read the opinions, but to be vigilant of this when doing so.
The true crime of this is that it leads reasonable people like yourself to the belief that his deplorable behavior is merely a case of "reasonable people can disagree intelligently".
Make no mistake, the outcome is predetermined based on his ideology. Reading individual opinions in isolation may tempt you to believe otherwise, but consulting his record over the long term will make it pretty clear.
- KMag 11y ago> I encourage everyone to not just read the opinions, but to be vigilante of this when doing so. Vigilantism, particularly against judges and justices for written opinions, is not the way to deal with laws and interpretations you find unjust. We must not fight the unjust with injustice.
- icebraining 11y agoI think it was meant "vigilant" in the Latin sense, ie.: watchful, attentive. Otherwise, the statement ("vigilant of") doesn't seem to make much sense.
- lawnchair_larry 11y agoOops, fixed. I'm not sure if that was a typo or a freudian slip. Kidding. ...kind of.
- KMag 11y agoAhh, I see. I live in a non-English speaking country, and I'm very used to correspondence where the author has copy-pasted a correctly spelled word from a dictionary, but has used very non-standard grammar in constructing the sentence. I guess that's why I read it as a grammatical mistake rather than a spelling mistake.
- lawnchair_larry 11y agoGoing on a tangent here, that's an interesting claim, and I think I disagree. I posit that vigilantism is merely an alternative vehicle to the legal system, and only outcomes can be just or unjust. Let us not fool ourselves into thinking that the legal outcome is necessarily the just outcome.
- KMag 11y agoI full heartedly agree that the courts are courts of law, not courts of justice or morality. However, mob justice isn't justice, either.
- cmurf 11y agoThat's funny considering he argued the exact opposite, that mere moral disagreement was sufficient reason to justify a community criminalizing said deviant behavior. Calling the man names and suggesting it's a good thing that he's dead, is far more charitable than his worldview on morality.