Allowed, or required? It is Texas. ..

Well, at least it won’t be Schlafley this time.

Heh. Solomon.

So the “best I’m going to get” is you pretending that you “might” have said a word that changes the meaning from what you did say significantly, and that is your readers fault the words you did say mean what they do? Moreover, you do recognize that your original point is now incoherent, right? Because you were arguing…

We don’t need to unravel the very foundations of language itself, despite your pretentious and wounded tone, we just need to see that you’re unwilling to admit fault and willing to desperately cast aspersions in hopes of distracting from that. It’s sad when you desperately attack others rather than admit fault, or…

While I can, and often am, incredibly pedantic, that’s not what’s happening here. The idea you actually believe it is strains credulity.

There’s a particular irony to the hypocrisy of you now than bandying about claims of dishonesty, when you became so upset that people were doing it to you. I did not in this post, but you saying I said things I didn’t day is not new. What I did was explain how it could be seen as dishonest, which is DIFFERENT, because…

What ethicists say the legal system should be is not what it is. What some say the intention of it should be, is not necessarily what the intention is.

I think you’re defending his statement because you are defending his statement: “My point is simply that while there are a great many things wrong with Brock’s father’s statement, pointing out a loss of appetite isn’t one of them.”

He didn’t make a medical argument. YOU inserted that on the grounds it was somewhat implied. But you can’t stretch that add far as you have here. Your position is not reasonable.

I never said it was your apologia. But its original context was for an apologia, which is why your claim that

Brock’s alleged suffering was not one of repentance, but was over the unpleasantness of the consequences.

See, this would be the bullshit of which I spoke: You’re well aware that it specifically WAS offered as an apologia for his actions—in the sense of attempting to argue for less of a punishment for them (as opposed to an explanation for them, which patently couldn’t make sense).

Oh, I’m listening—I’m just not caring. You’ve spouted bullshit. When called on said bullshit, you’ve tried to bullshit harder. It didn’t work, and you have, apparently, nothing more to offer. I’m sorry for you that all have to offer is bullshit. Perhaps a night’s rest will encourage you to rethink your poor choices…

So, to be clear: You start with an appeal authority. Then you move on to a demonstrably dishonest argument where you say “I also didn’t argue that judicial discretion was under fire.” Then you lied about what I said, purposefully strawmanning it. Then you use the tone trolling argument where, rather than addressing…

That’s a terrible argument for a murderer to make. The hypocrisy alone invalidates it without some other factor.

First, it’s dishonest to try to say that judicial discretion is under fire. “That’s a shitty reason” =/= “judges shouldn’t have discretion”, so that’s just absurd.

“He’s not fit for prison” has worked on judges. It’s never worked on victims, or the public, and I don’t think it should work on judges either. “I get upset at dealing with the consequences of the harm I caused, so I shouldn’t have to deal with them “ is, generally and specifically here, a pathetic and disgusting…

No, it’s 100% ridiculous to say “dealing with the consequences of his actions has bothered him, therefore there should be less consequences”. It’s a terrible argument, and is disrespectful of people who really have PTSD—remember that he wasn’t even sentenced yet, so this supposed PTSD was at the mere specter of…

You have brought things up and, as far as I can see, been pretty consistently told something akin to “yeah, I already knew that and discounted it”, so I don’t really see what “others” you’re referring to. You seem to be the one missing things, especially when you claim is not ridiculous of his dad to bring up the…