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To egregiously paraphrase the Pascal quote cited later:
“A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
There is all too much substantiating evidence for this adage these days, especially if one spends too much time wallowing in what is often designated the MSM or [M]ain[S]tream [M]edia. Learning a little about something and beating everyone over the head with it is nothing new. Nor is the phenomenon wherein those who know the least make the most noise. It is very likely that things have... [More]
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“Three baseball umpires are having lunch together. The first umpire says ‘Well, a lot of them are balls, and a lot of them are strikes, but I always calls ‘em as I sees ‘em.’
“The second umpire says ‘Hmph. I calls ‘em as they are.’
“The third umpire slowly looks at his two colleagues and declares ‘They ain’t nothin’ until I calls ‘em.’”
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Modern discussions of law are very frequently mired down in discussions of minutiae of what is legal vs. what is moral. Very quickly, the discussion has narrowed further to niggling over minor quirks of American jurisprudence and precedence law.
For example, it seems that the relatively narrow topic of torture has become an almost impossibly unwieldy and unknowable problem for this modern age’s great thinkers, where hours and hours and hours are spent determining at what point a particular... [More]
