Is senility a form of evolution?
Just curious;
WASHINGTON — Judge Richard A. Posner, whose restless intellect, withering candor and superhuman output made him among the most provocative figures in American law in the last half-century, recently announced his retirement...
“Gradually, I lost interest or exhausted my interest,” he said. ..
He called his approach to judging pragmatic. His critics called it lawless. “I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions,” Judge Posner said. “A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself — forget about the law — what is a sensible resolution of this dispute?”
For those so inclined to believe in evolutionary theory, it may be evident that senility is a self-perpetuating form of evolution; therefore, they can justifiably disregard all of those bothersome missing links—along with the law...
For everyone else, especially those who might possibly fall victim to an subjective analysis of poorly crafted law, the "pragmatic approach" would call for having recourse to a war chest.
For more about Judge Richard A. Posner's retirement, see A judge comes clean about how he actually judges at Albert Mohler's Daily Briefing.
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