| ▲ | basisword 4 days ago |
| The Supreme Court wasn’t deciding anything other than the intention of an existing law and the meaning of the words in that law (which were unclear enough to require clarification). BOTH sides of the debate claiming that the Supreme Court has now defined what constitutes a “woman” are wrong and doing nothing but polarising people for their own selfish gain. |
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| ▲ | qingcharles 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| This ^. It was your standard run-of-the-mill statutory interpretation case. Limited to a single badly defined statute, written somewhat carelessly. This is common for statutes. What often happens is that a "supreme" court like this will file an opinion attempting to clarify the meaning as best they can, but it really requires a statutory amendment by the legislators to fix it. Often that is what happens next. |
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| ▲ | EA-3167 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Unfortunately when you try to explain this to people, the most common response (regardless of which side they're on) is to express that "Yes, but OUR side is right, so misrepresenting the ruling in our favor is right too." |
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| ▲ | ChocolateGod 4 days ago | parent [-] | | The same kind of people where if you're not on their extreme, you're on the opposite extreme and might as well be Satan himself. You're not allowed to be in the middle anymore. | | |
| ▲ | XorNot 4 days ago | parent [-] | | People are rightly judged for saying they're "in the middle" because too often their "middle" is just whatever they perceptually decided the position of the left and right was and then they picked their position in reaction to that, rather then out of any consideration of the issue. People love to be "in the middle" and thus "reasonable". | | |
| ▲ | EA-3167 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | This is why the entire exercise of finding a place on a political spectrum is a trap and a scam, the only thing that really matters: Are you an extremist or a moderate? Because I can get along with a moderate person on the left, right, or anywhere in between. By the same token extremists regardless of stripe are unbearable. | |
| ▲ | vacuity 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | You're both right. We don't distinguish between the reasonable middle grounders and the unreasonable ones. More broadly, we don't distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable arguments. We never have. Truth as determined by humans is basically a popularity contest. |
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