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DLnyc

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16. Pretty weak argument on torture.

Sun Dec 14, 2014, 11:04 PM

Dec 2014

Apparently, the idea is as follows:

1) Person X is known to have planted a nuclear device in Los Angeles
2) By torturing X it is known that Antonin Scalia can determine where the bomb is and thus save the lives of several tens of millions of people.
3) Antonin Scalia has no compulsion about violating person X in any manner whatsoever in order to heroically save all these lives.
4) But if Antonin Scalia has reason to fear facing legal sanction of his use of torture, he will simply opt to save his own skin and let the tens of millions of people die.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Tony.

You are vastly less valuable to society than sewage odor.

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Scalia really really really needs to be removed from office. [View all] Brigid Dec 2014 OP

If we didn't impeach him and his accomplices Kelvin Mace Dec 2014 #1

True. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #38

i second that!!! spanone Dec 2014 #2

From my civics classes I was taught SC judges are there for life unless they decide Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #3

I know that. Brigid Dec 2014 #4

They should have mentioned they could be impeached also. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2014 #6

They should be elected Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2014 #10

Nope, they should NOT be elected. 7962 Dec 2014 #12

Exactly dflprincess Dec 2014 #13

Jesus, can you imagine who have been elected in the last election cycle. progressoid Dec 2014 #24

Justice Hank Williams, Jr....Justice Dale Earnhardt....Justice Newt Gingrich...... MADem Dec 2014 #33

Congress couldn't agree the sun comes up in the east CanonRay Dec 2014 #5

I wouldn't cry a single tear rock Dec 2014 #7

Man that's harsh.... truebrit71 Dec 2014 #20

Wow, you'd wish a stroke on someone you dont agree with? 7962 Dec 2014 #21

Now that's harsh Warpy Dec 2014 #26

"The best way you hurt rich people . . . Brigid Dec 2014 #32

I never said I was a paragon of morality and high minded thinking Warpy Dec 2014 #43

Wishing they were poor is totally different! nt 7962 Dec 2014 #34

Thats not true, they care about facts ........ cstanleytech Dec 2014 #23

Based on his apparent corpulence, his heart... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #41

Jeebus... MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #8

Unfortunately there is no IQ test for SC either Politicalboi Dec 2014 #9

He's old we can wait him out and keep winning presidential elections in the meantime. craigmatic Dec 2014 #11

Has any SC justice ever been impeached? Archae Dec 2014 #14

Not that I know of. Brigid Dec 2014 #15

Pretty weak argument on torture. DLnyc Dec 2014 #16

Scalia is a really horrible person. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #17

He's as bad as Cheney and Limbaugh, maybe worse. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #36

Excommunicate Deepunder Dec 2014 #18

I've read some crazy shit Scalia said mountain grammy Dec 2014 #19

Problem is though that what he said doesnt allow for him to be legally removed from office cstanleytech Dec 2014 #22

would he feel the same if he were tortured?? trueblue2007 Dec 2014 #25

I am for impeachment of Scalia RobertEarl Dec 2014 #27

Perhaps an amendment . . . Brigid Dec 2014 #28

I think every ten years we could vote one out RobertEarl Dec 2014 #31

The fat f**k has always been a psychopath... gregcrawford Dec 2014 #29

There was an episode on Law & Order like that, except the judge was nicer. Actor Ned Beatty appalachiablue Dec 2014 #39

Don't we think it's time Nino started taking it easy, enjoying la doce vita with the family? appalachiablue Dec 2014 #30

Fascist piece of filth. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #35

I didn't know Scalia was such a relativist. Vattel Dec 2014 #37

He does Prophet 451 Dec 2014 #40

He's nuttier Aerows Dec 2014 #42

Scalia has been senile for a while Gothmog Dec 2014 #44

He's a walking contradiction RedCappedBandit Dec 2014 #45