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To: Lane3 who wrote (23130)	2/18/2012 5:08:07 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

For a culture, a precedent is another brick in the wall. Yes but most of the bricks wont' be decisive, many are insignificant, and some precedents go the other way, pulling down a brick instead. Even the final brick that pushes things over the top (and even assuming its a major brick not just the straw that broke the camel's back), might not be reasonably said to have been a precedent that change the moral view, by that time its the precedent that confirmed that the change exist, more than it made the change.