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"It's not their fault" What? That brings exactly zero people the help they need. When your action is the proximate cause of the revocation of freedom from 165
by TameAntelope 4y ago
"It's not their fault" What? That brings exactly zero people the help they need.
When your action is the proximate cause of the revocation of freedom from 165m people, it's definitely 'your fault'."
This may not have been a great way to keep women safe forever, but today was not the day it needed fixing.
- bmelton 4y agoIt also by itself does not restrict anyone from the help that they need. It is not the job of the Supreme Court to care for the reproductive health of the American people. Of the federal government, that would either be the job of the executive or the legislature, depending on your preferred view of the executive branch.
- TameAntelope 4y agoIt is absolutely the job of the Supreme Court to care for the entire health of the American people, there is literally no other reason for the body to exist other than to maximally enable Americans' life, liberty, and their pursuit of happiness. If the Supreme Court cannot do this, it should not exist.
- torstenvl 4y agoAt no time in the history of the United States has that been anywhere near the purpose of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's one and only purpose is to exercise the judicial power of the United States in cases or controversies before it, with original jurisdiction as specifically enumerated in Article III, Marbury v. Madison, and with appellate jurisdiction with regard to all other cases. It exists to referee the non-violent resolution of a subset of emotionally charged disputes through a functioning legal system. It does not exist to ensure that one side or the other wins.
- generj 4y agoIt is supposed to exist to further a functional legal system. But it has been long since been perverted into a nakedly partisan purpose. At least four sitting justices were put on the court specifically to ensure this ruling occurred.
- TameAntelope 4y agoYou're lost. Those things are only useful if they help people. The root purpose of any system of government to exist is to provide for the health and happiness of the governed. If any system of government fails to do that, it is broken, and the fact that you've lost sight of the entire purpose of government is both sad and entirely predictable.
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- torstenvl 4y agoHaving a system to resolve disputes without someone getting shot is helping people. This is not a disputable point. And cool it with the personal attacks. That kind of behavior is inappropriate.