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Obamacare Explained
Posted by: Sillary Clit ()
Date: November 26, 2014 09:35AM

http://theweek.com/article/index/272149/the-dangerously-childish-morality-of-liberal-obamacare-supporters?google_editors_picks=true


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The first layer of absurdity is the implicit notion that, whatever it is that the law actually says, courts should choose in favor of what meets the purported utilitarian calculus. (And, indeed, opponents of the law have made a very coherent case that their reading is right and that this is how the law was purposefully designed.) There's only one slight problem with this idea: it undermines one of the very foundations of modern civilization, namely the rule of law.

The idea of the rule of law (and progressives sometimes struggle with the concept) is that countries should be governed by laws, not by the whims of individuals. If the text of the law says something, that's what you should do, regardless of the consequences. Because if you do it any other way, the consequences of that are, over the long run, chaos: everyone overrides the law in favor of their preferred ethical principle.
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