Ruth Bader Ginsberg died

[Thor]

38 Forum pages in 6 hours...... !!

If you believe that RBG was a person worthy of respect and admiration; please give her a few quiet minutes of your time.

One potato....nope.

 

[foszoe]

Can inaction make one culpable for something wrong that one does not participate in, support or condone?

In that sense I agree. I am a proud citizen of my country. I can’t take credit for its victories over tyranny where I took no part, but I can feel proud when I support the causes, as part of the “we”, in that it was my country’s achievement. How that would look from the other side of things, I can be ashamed of the “we” when my country has done wrong, without accepting guilt or blame for something that I did not participate in, support, or condone.

 

[actaeon277]

Just saw on TV that Barrett was nominated.

 

[actaeon277]

Let the wailing begin.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Let the wailing begin.

The real wailing will begin when McConnell bypasses the committee and goes straight to the floor vote (at least that's how I hope it goes).

 

[Leadeye]

I was asked at work who I thought would be on Joe's short list for SCOTUS and I answered that he probably doesn't have one. When I got a stare I just said, if he's not elected, it's moot, if he is elected he has plenty of time to get one ready.

 

[actaeon277]

The real wailing will begin when McConnell bypasses the committee and goes straight to the floor vote (at least that's how I hope it goes).

Bonus points if he thanks the other side for only needing a simple majority.

 

[actaeon277]

I was asked at work who I thought would be on Joe's short list for SCOTUS and I answered that he probably doesn't have one. When I got a stare I just said, if he's not elected, it's moot, if he is elected he has plenty of time to get one ready.

Why would Biden need a list?
Kamala might.

 

[Mgderf]

Why would Biden need a list?
Kamala might.

God forbid...

 

[Doug]

I heard the Democrats will, in a rare flash of honesty, claim she's unqualified simply because she was nominated by Trump.

 

[Mikey1911]

I heard the Democrats will, in a rare flash of honesty, claim she's unqualified simply because she was nominated by Trump.

Yeah, that “dogma lives loudly” within Feinstein, and those of her ilk.

 

[chipbennett]

I was asked at work who I thought would be on Joe's short list for SCOTUS and I answered that he probably doesn't have one. When I got a stare I just said, if he's not elected, it's moot, if he is elected he has plenty of time to get one ready.

He would need Kamala to tell him who is on the list.

 

[foszoe]

Better to just let Kamala read it off. Not sure Biden could remember it long enough to recite it.

He would need Kamala to tell him who is on the list.

 

[chipbennett]

Better to just let Kamala read it off. Not sure Biden could remember it long enough to recite it.

Hey, now; credit where it is due: Biden is still capable of reading from a Teleprompter.

 

[OakRiver]

I heard the Democrats will, in a rare flash of honesty, claim she's unqualified simply because she was nominated by Trump.

I know you used purple but Kamala is objecting to ACB because she was "hand picked" by Trump. Unlike every other SCOTUS choice I guess...

 

[Ingomike]

My opinion is this thread has died also. Can we discuss this in the thread for the nominee? I would like to see all your posts in one thread...

 

[jamil]

Can inaction make one culpable for something wrong that one does not participate in, support or condone?

Morally, it can. If you have the power to stop something you know is wrong or harmful and don’t, you have some moral responsibility for the suffering it caused others that you could have stopped. But since we’re talking about collective guilt, that isn’t the same thing. It’s an individual guilt, even though it might be shared across a group of people who could have chosen to act and did not.

 

[BugI02]

Can inaction make one culpable for something wrong that one does not participate in, support or condone?

Ask the ordinary German citizens of the third reich

 

[jamil]

Ask the ordinary German citizens of the third reich

I guess you could say the failings of human nature are a sort of collective behavior, blame, maybe. It’s an extraordinary person, and I mean that literally, that can overcome the fear of reprisal to stand up to the people with guns and say, that’s wrong.

 

[foszoe]

I guess you could say the failings of human nature are a sort of collective behavior, blame, maybe. It’s an extraordinary person, and I mean that literally, that can overcome the fear of reprisal to stand up to the people with guns and say, that’s wrong.

That is the broadest sense of the collective "we". It doesn't have to be guns though. Who said what happens when good men do nothing?