From: Jesse F. Hughes on
Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes(a)gmail.com> writes:

> And let us say the Court listens to a case of mercury such as the
> mercury preservative in vaccinations of children who a large group
> have been stricken with autism. It is apparent that the Constitution
> is not going to have written material over mercury and the science
> of mercury. So here is a neat example of what the Constitution
> wants of the Supreme Court. It wants the justices to become analysts
> of a cost benefit ratio. It wants the Justices to find out if it is
> worth the risk of preserving vaccines by one of the most poisonous
> materials on Earth-- mercury. So the Constitution via the preamble
> and 9th are requiring the Justices to seek that scientific
> information on mercury. And when they come to their final decisions
> of voting yea or nay, that the Justices will give their vote a
> enumerated list of cost and benefit. The majority opinion obviously
> believes their analysis yields a net improvement of the world. The
> dissenting votes have to give their list of why the analysis is a
> net harm to the overall world.

I'm pretty sure if this is what the founders wanted, they wouldn't
have called it "The Supreme Court". They would have called it "Our
Utilitarian Overlords".

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