> John Lacny wrote:
>>And once again, people are making this issue far more complicated than it
>>is.
> Yeah, I agree. I think someone brought up the old aphorism that hard
> cases make bad law, and it seems that everyone is looking for the
> hard cases here. I don't really understand why.
Thank you.
And re: Doug's earlier comparison of this discussion thread with the ticking time bomb torture defense, somewhere Zizek described how that scenario was a bogus argument, because _of course_ physical coercion will be used in such a situation, regardless of law. The floating of that argument was pretty transparently part of the larger strategy of laying some pro-torture legal groundwork.
So, setting aside Michael's original quandary, what is the fascination here with exceptional cases? Obviously there's no conscious strategy behind our collective barroom bullshit-slinging, to use Chuck0's analogy, but this is just the kind of meme I'd sow if I wanted to watch the fractured left pry itself apart some more.
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