Little Joe;
Cass Sunstein has expressed a belief that animals, and I believe trees, should have the right to sue people.
I wasn't familiar with Sunstein and so did a little research on him - based on your statement that trees should have the right to sue people. Are you listening to only Fox again? From w3hat i have found it seems you have mixed up Sunstein with John Holden. Gosh little joe it is hard to take you serious when you twist facts up to such an extent - and it is why people suggest you need to back up your statements. Even that left wing rag the Wall Street Journal endorsed him.
Here is some reading for you on Sunstein so you can be better informed next time;
en.wikipedia.org
Sunstein is a proponent of judicial minimalism, arguing that judges should focus primarily on deciding the case at hand, and avoid making sweeping changes to the law or decisions that have broad-reaching effects. Some view him as liberal[citation needed] despite publicly supporting some of George W. Bush's judicial nominees, including Michael W. McConnell and John G. Roberts, as well as supporting rights under the Second Amendment [10] and providing strong theoretical support for the death penalty[11]. Much of his work also brings behavioral economics to bear on law, suggesting that the "rational actor" model will sometimes produce an inadequate understanding of how people will respond to legal intervention.
In recent years Sunstein has collaborated with academics who have training in behavioral economics, most notably Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, and Christine M. Jolls, to show how the theoretical assumptions of law and economics should be modified by new empirical findings about how people actually behave.
Sunstein (along with his coauthor Richard Thaler) has elaborated the theory of libertarian paternalism. In arguing for this theory, he counsels thinkers/academics/politicians to embrace the findings of behavioral economics as applied to law, maintaining freedom of choice while also steering people's decisions in directions that will make their lives go better. With Thaler, he coined the term "choice architect." |
