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To: koan who wrote (9713)	2/18/2012 2:43:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

But it took people to care. Caring is the first thing that is important. The caring here, wasn't having warm fuzzy feelings and trying to help everyone in the world out, the caring was about an injustice. Seeing something, and having a concern about it. Its concern and animated interest in something, not sympathy empathic feelings (even if some, or even a lot, of the concern was the result of such feelings) Sure if no one cared to change there wouldn't be much change, but people can also care about things you would object to. When Scalia makes a pithy remark that the Constituion does not say execution must be painless it shows an uncaring personality. No it shows a lot of caring. Caring about the constitution and rule of law. That concern could be concern for the rule of law as an abstract principle, or it could be concern about the rule of law, since if you toss it, you expose people to injustice, and he has sympathy for victims of injustice. I think it may be a combination of both, but even if its all the former, its still something that his remake shows caring about. A person of conscience would have not made a remark like that. Nonsense.