Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
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@Catseye3 said in Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court:
@Horace and Jon said in Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court:
No, I’ll just put the word ‘should’ in front of ‘have rights’ to acknowledge the actual situation humans have always faced.
By which you will always mean, "should have the ability to appeal to an authority to enforce those rights". Thus confusing the conversation, for those who might want to discuss the sorts of rights that can exist without an ability to enforce them.
Man, I love these slugfests Jon and Horace get into.
When they put their heavy thinking hats on, I feel like Bozo the Clown looking on. Not that that shuts me up any, but still.
Never underestimate The Thumper.
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@Ivorythumper said in Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court:
IT, any response I give to your elegant and graceful essay above will be pretty much too boring to bother with, my intellect, if you can even call it that, being a mile wide and an inch deep, but I didn't want to leave your thoughtful comment unaddressed, FWIW.
. . . though if the human beings have an actual telos, . . . then that certain gives it your oomph.
The issue here of course is that we all want these things for ourselves, if not necessarily for others -- nobody doesn't want what natural law . . . [tells] us is the order of the human person in relationship.
Yet, apart from accepting natural law and the worldview as the western Christian has worked it out, its really difficult to uphold that intellectually.>That's the thing. There is maybe no need to uphold it intellectually. As endlessly
exhaustingfascinating as it is to ponder the nature of Truth, Beauty and the Universe, natural law makes some big truths easy to accept without a lot of struggle. Acceptance of natural law just lays it all out, easy peasy. (Which thank god; the lesser challenges are difficult enough.)But can western Christianity take all the credit? Has the telos (1) not preceded Christianity? Would Neanderthal have survived and evolved without a natural inclination toward caring for his children?
(1) To steal your term, about which I am ignorant, but intrigued. It seems like a dandy theory to enfold oneself in.
I think the vast majority of people mature into responsible and integrated human beings, <
You do???
Thank you for your very kind comments on my trevail. As it happens, my all-caps TERRIBLE SUFFERING was referring to a sick day preceding that which was one for the books, but which vanished without lingering consequences and left me feeling as fine as a frog's hair -- or as fine as I generally am able to get. (Conclusion of the TNCR expert panel: kidney stones; major hurt.) So as awful as it was, it maybe wasn't as bad as the impression I gave with my drama. But your across-the-miles hugs were lovely.
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It’s always something.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Neither will Thomas.
I look forward to his next majority ruling.
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@89th said in Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court:
Thomas is my new hero.
There is no more hated a man in America, I mean other than Trump, amongst leftist opinionators. I’ll have to write a post about the stuff they say when they talk amongst themselves about that guy. I am a fly on the wall in a hyper liberal discussion group led by a guy who used to take piano lessons from the same teacher as me. Oh boy. The hatred they have for Thomas.
