tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post112993016937128118..comments2024-02-28T14:41:47.313-07:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: The Rule of Lawambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1130008244621045912005-10-22T13:10:00.000-06:002005-10-22T13:10:00.000-06:00syl:I know what you mean.I quit smoking more than ...syl:<BR/><BR/>I know what you mean.<BR/><BR/>I quit smoking more than years and 15 pounds ago. But I stll think that asking people if they smoke at home or on their off time is out of line.<BR/><BR/>And my biological clock stopped ticking some time ago, but I know as a matter of plain common sense that making a woman have a baby she is bound and determined not to have is a whole lot more complicated than passing a law, whatever kind of law it may be.<BR/><BR/>My understanding of what Miers said on the subject is that the facts of Griswold are not going to come up again so when we discuss it today we do so with regards simply to the way the law was overturned.<BR/><BR/>Fine and dandy. However you do it a dumb is a dumb law.<BR/><BR/>I know that is simplistic, but then again this is not brain surgery. It is birth control.<BR/><BR/>I think knucklehead is a brave fellow for bringing up the notion of transnational law.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1129993712873323922005-10-22T09:08:00.000-06:002005-10-22T09:08:00.000-06:00Thanks for putting this together. I started with t...Thanks for putting this together. I started with the last link first (don't ask) but didn't get too far.<BR/><BR/>I get the paradoxes and the shifting boundary between private/public.<BR/><BR/>I just didn't quite get (or get to) the solution through a change in legal philosophy.<BR/><BR/>I'll just say that any legal philosophy offered as a solution that still allows the state to regulate my use of contraception, punishes me for making a sexist joke in an office, or decides whom I should or should not have sex with is no solution at all.<BR/><BR/>And, believe me, I'm way past menopause and totally not employed, and none of these issues affect me personally. But I'm just as concerned about them as if they did.<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry that I don't think as deeply on these issues as religious and legal scholars. I'm just a plain ordinary citizen who's become alarmed at the intrusion of the law into our personal lives.Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069871911665125873noreply@blogger.com