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To: LibertarianInExile
"I wish I could say the same for your comments."

Yes, Anita Hill would say the same thing. The histrionics are fun to watch.

82 posted on 07/24/2005 7:34:34 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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In his confirmation testimony two years ago, Roberts said that judges should be "ever mindful that they are insulated from democratic pressures precisely because the Framers expected them to be discerning law, not shaping policy," and added: "That means that judges should not look to their own personal views or preferences in deciding the cases before them. Their commission is no license to impose their preferences from the bench."


83 posted on 07/24/2005 7:38:38 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: LibertarianInExile

Guilt by Association is a fallacy in which a person rejects a claim simply because it is pointed out that people she dislikes accept the claim. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:

* People/person p does not like accept claim c.
* Therefore c is false.

Explanation

It is clear that sort of "reasoning" is fallacious.The fallacy draws its power from the fact that people do not like to be associated with people they dislike. Hence, if it is shown that a person shares a belief with people he dislikes he might be influenced into rejecting that belief. In such cases the person will be rejecting the claim based on how he thinks or feels about the people who hold it and because he does not want to be associated with such people. Of course, the fact that someone does not want to be associated with people she dislikes does not justify the rejection of any claim. For example, most wicked and terrible people accept that the earth revolves around the sun and that lead is heavier than helium. No sane person would reject these claims simply because this would put them in the company of people they dislike (or even hate).


86 posted on 07/24/2005 7:44:31 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (Kelo, Grutter, and Roe all have to go. Will Roberts get us there--don't know. No more Souters.)
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