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The justices of the Supreme Court are highly literate -- as well as literal people. Their livelihoods and judgements rely on the meaning of words. Their opini
by supernova87a 3y ago
The justices of the Supreme Court are highly literate -- as well as literal people. Their livelihoods and judgements rely on the meaning of words. Their opinions draw from history, precedent, Latin, analogy, similarity and they have to communicate it through words, not code. In terms that can convey generally understood meaning and principles without having to rehash entire books to ensure thorough understanding. Opinions have included Shakespeare, poetry, wit, sarcasm.
Perhaps you may be disturbed or offended by a phrase that happens to come from the bible. Others are not, and take it simply as a historical analogy. I'm not Christian and I don't find it disturbing. You might be getting overly offended in this case.
- grensley 3y agoI'm a big fan of the quote “Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems” and I just don't like to blur the line between the two.
- supernova87a 3y agoAnd what does that mean in this situation? The using of a historical analogy in a legal opinion contributes to making our government have the appearance of a dictatorship?
- grensley 3y agoJust a general trend of humanizing things that aren't human: governments, corporations, AI.
- supernova87a 3y agoThe opinion in this case prevented a "evil" government entity from taking an individual's property unjustly, and was written by a person using anecdotes and references to people. So honestly I don't know what you're on about.