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Old 06-20-2006, 10:44 AM   #20 (permalink)
warrrreagl
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
We can say and agree that this and others are stupidly frivilous, wastes court time, which in turn wastes taxpayer money, but as Art pointed out, where would a line be drawn?
I guess this outlines the problem that I was trying to (poorly) discuss with ART. Most of us have been trained to believe that if a perfect line cannot be envisioned, then one should not be drawn at all. I disagree completely.

Of course, wherever we choose to draw a line, SOMEBODY somewhere is going to be screwed, but that shouldn't prevent us from trying to fix the problem and draw a line somewhere. If we all fold up and quit every time an exception is imagined, the system grinds to a halt (and I'm afraid that's where we've gotten).

I get headaches thinking about how many committees I've been on where the members believed their function was to envision any bizarre scenario where one single person fell through the cracks, thereby scuttling some pretty damn good ideas in the process. I've come to learn that every idea, no matter how great, will always screw somebody somewhere. But that CAN'T be enough of a reason to toss it out.

Where do we draw a line? I don't know, but that's what we elect judges and legislators to do for us - make hard decisions. And they're just not doing it. And the march continues whereby the "rights" of one person somehow outweigh the rights of 250 million.
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