Whenever anyone mentions the 'constitution' my feet rise automatically as they must know the BS will flow. Two hundred plus years ago a bunch of pretty smart guys and girls got together and did the best they could. Obviously they were far from perfect as so much has changed since then. Why is that you wonder?
'It be' a result of the IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES which were brought to consciouness; principles which provided the certainty that "All HUMANS ARE CREATED EQUAL" Note that those 'pretty smart guys'... did not meantion FAIRNESS They did not state a principle wherein 'ALL HUMANS WERE CREATED FAIRLY...' They did not espouse in a single script that 'fairness' was a function of equality... thus while 'empathy' is a natural condition for those less fortunate... the ONLY MEANS TO SERVE JUSTICE IS TO DEFEND THE IMMUTABLE OBJECTIVITY OF EQUALITY... and to REJECT ON ITS FACE, the subjective appeal to fairness...
Ah, could it be maturity, empathy maybe, Blacks are free, women can vote, society is not the wild west or the racist south, children don't work 16 hour days, and labor has some rights and protections, food is safe. How'd we get here you think? Read a bit of history and you see a fight in many of these areas and you see those opposed to change try hard to push back progress
ROFLMNAO... Yes yes... because there was SO MUCH pressure to defend unsafe food... The Poisonous FOOD lobby was truly one of the more loathesome elements of US History...
Oh you're all over it.
And those poor kids... FORCED TO WORK to feed themselves and their families...
Sorta like how I'm forced to work to feed my family... THE HORROR!
Isn't it BRILLIANT how these facets of history are reassembled as if they occured in a vacuum? Children worked because the circumstances of their day were such that such was necessary... and given the path which the ideological left is presently on wherein they are busying themselves to destroy the US currency... and the economy which rests upon that currency, children should be preparing themselves to return to hard labor... as it may soon be that, as it was then, HARD LABOR IS VASTLY PREFERABLE TO STARVATION.
Look across the landscape today and see the results of what this intellectual miscreant has brought upon children, who reject work, who are by all intents and purposes incapable of work... who are said by the social scientists to be suffering the ravages of that most devastating of all social plagues... POOR SELF ESTEEM. In their chubby little bodies... who have in MOST CASES no means of perception for 'want'...
Children who as a result of the ideological left has been placed upon the faux pedastal, where RIGHTS of the child now reign supreme; rights which exist in a vacuum; wholly separated from any perception of RESPONSIBILITY.
And what this entire calamity born upon? Why
FAIRNESS OF COURSE... Unbridled empathy...
ROFLMNAO... Leftists...
Sotomayor represents another step along that path to progress. One regret I have as a finite being is that I cannot see what comes 50, 100, 200 years from now. Will humanity have grown or will the naysayers still be around stopping what in the end is inevitable but too slow.
Well the wonderful thing about history is it provides a view of the future... Because History is not some much a function of seeing what people did in the past... as much as it provides a means to see what PEOPLE DID WHEN FACED WITH CERTAIN PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES; and the results of their CHOICES.
So, with regard to children and their future, we can look back just 100 years and see the choices that people have made and examine the results of those choices...
in 1909, most children were sufficiently fit and intellectually able to take on the challenges of a full day at play... or work... Their education provided that by the time they had reached the 4th grade, they could read at what is today, a level sufficient to graduate highschool... The 4th grader of 1909 departed for the 5th grade with a full understanding of basic mathematics... having mastered arithmatic; adding and subtracting; and was well on their way towards mastering multiplication and division...
The 4th grader of 1909, was capable of expressing through the written word, complete sentences... able to express entire thoughts, through the construction of whole paragraphs.
And they understood the basic concepts of their nations founding... including the principles which sustained their nations freedom.
Since that time, history has shown us that the US Education systems has become more and more centralized... thus requiring the exponential averaging of standards; standards which must accommodate the lowest common denominator (which FTR: 4th graders of 1909 could define)... and that as a result, the average 4th grader of 1909 could kick the academic HELL out of the modern day college freshmen... And odds are, that with all things being equal... given their physical means, the 4th grader of 1909, could most likely beat the physical hell out of the average modern college freshman...
Now this represents a trend doesn't it? A trend which reflects what? Does this trend reflect an ever increasing set of cultural standards? I can't see where it would... As the average modern 4th grader is not able to sum much of anything except their feelings on their having mastered the latest video-game... which have more to do with their demand for the new video-game; they are not capable of expressing whole thoughts of any kind and have little means to express themselves in writing, what so ever.
So the trend is clearly one where cultural standards have long since been on the decline... since the 'enlightenment of the PROGRRESSIVES infected the US Culture...
A trend Born of EMPATHY and wherein, the appointment of this species of reasoning TO US JURISPRUDENCE... can only result in the same trend... towards the same calamity, except where such cannot be sustained for a century... as empathy is NOT a viable substitute for equal justice; empathy can neither sustain nor serve justice and where Justice is not served, it serves injustice; thus serving tyranny... thus promoting the imminent destruction of the free culture.
If you'd like to see what empathy looks like where it is taken to its logical end... go find a copy of "Idiocracy" and examine 'the trial' scene...
It's of course a farce and it's a certainty that a culture could never decline to such levels... because of the certainty that LONG before such could occur, nature requires that another viable culture will conquer it and replace that decadence with a viable model... sadly, not necessarily one which reflects the principles of liberty and freedom; which the Idiocracy had long since destroyed.