James, that’s a good example—I remember being shocked to find out that there are various kinds of contract clauses that judges will ignore. It made me appreciate much more deeply why you have to have a lawyer look it over. Similarly, I used to have no idea of the philosophy behind stare decisis—I thought it was ingrained deference to the past a la Judaism.
Roland, since many Christians do believe those things, this isn’t the sort of entirely imaginary position I’m talking about—the one that just gets manufactured from thin air because it seems so “truthy”.
James, that’s a good example—I remember being shocked to find out that there are various kinds of contract clauses that judges will ignore. It made me appreciate much more deeply why you have to have a lawyer look it over. Similarly, I used to have no idea of the philosophy behind stare decisis—I thought it was ingrained deference to the past a la Judaism.
Roland, since many Christians do believe those things, this isn’t the sort of entirely imaginary position I’m talking about—the one that just gets manufactured from thin air because it seems so “truthy”.