Comments on: Sympathy: Empathy’s Red-Headed Stepbrother

By: Mighty Skip

Mighty Skip — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:50:41 +0000

Very typical. As Michael Medved said in his piece at Townhall.com, “The core mistake of liberalism involves the confusion of charity and justice.”

As he points out, even the Bible warns against this follow in Leviticus 19:15, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.”

This is repeated several times, not that liberals really care about this Iron Age mythology.

By: Thank God we still have five sane people on the Supreme Court « Please, No Bull Hockey

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:01:53 +0000

[...] But in a country founded on individual liberties and restraint on government, “social justice” as legal theory is simply hogwash. [...]

By: fritz8945

fritz8945 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:18:37 +0000

All the Senators that will vote yay or nay on Sotomayor should be made to read Justice Alito’s remarks. Oh, yes I forgot, lawmakers don’t read anything anymore, they just vote. Well, if memory serves, we still vote too.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:51:50 +0000

Mike, welcome to Threedonia. Thanks for commenting, and don’t be a stranger. At least don’t be stranger than JohnFN.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:39:34 +0000

“Personally I’d like to see justices with more antipathy.”

Absolutely! I mean the witness is right there, and he’s already holding a little hammer…

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:58:01 +0000

I’ve used these quotes on the firing range with whining recruits:
1.You can find sympathy in the dictionary. It’s between sh*t and syphilis.
2.You can find sympathy. You just can’t find it here.

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:22:52 +0000

The left has no idea what they will unleash if we start letting judges decide cases based on their ideas about who deserves it more than according to the law. Ironically, they will find that the system gets amazingly harsher because the people who can afford to become judges (and the people who can support others who want to become judges) are all well connected to the very people the left hates — business.

I can’t count the number of judges I know who came from doing insurance defense and who really think that all plaintiffs (the people the left thinks will always win under a sympathy regime) are malingerers.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:33:30 +0000

I’ll be a justice. I have no sympathy or empathy. HA!

By: Rufus

Rufus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:20:39 +0000

Personally I’d like to see justices with more antipathy. Or, if we can’t have that, how about making the justices wear those wacky, powdered wigs? Or, maybe an antipathetic judge who eats a lot of powdered donuts and develops lymphopathy?

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:06:49 +0000

“Sympathy is the new ‘separate but equal.’”

That’s extremely good.