rushmc 18 #76 April 3, 2007 QuoteLove him or hate him, Scalia is a brilliant legal mind. I see you are getting highly inteligent replys to this."America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #77 April 3, 2007 QuoteLove him or hate him, Scalia is a brilliant legal mind. You know, I agree. I disagree with the results from him a great deal of the time, but his opinions, in my opinion, are actually the most logical. He rarely reaches the wrong conclusion with faulty reasoning. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #78 April 4, 2007 QuoteCool you can join Al Gore my truck gets better milage than his SUV.... I get about 23 MPG on the freeway... just for what its worth...BUT my 32 ft boat with twin 350 CI 4 barreled engines gets about .75 MPG when spun up to 23 MPH..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 0 #79 April 4, 2007 QuoteQuoteLove him or hate him, Scalia is a brilliant legal mind. You know, I agree. I disagree with the results from him a great deal of the time, but his opinions, in my opinion, are actually the most logical. He rarely reaches the wrong conclusion with faulty reasoning. Quite true. He generally reaches the wrong conclusion with brilliant reasoning. Intellectually dishonest, but brilliant. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ExAFO 0 #80 April 4, 2007 QuoteQuoteQuoteLove him or hate him, Scalia is a brilliant legal mind. You know, I agree. I disagree with the results from him a great deal of the time, but his opinions, in my opinion, are actually the most logical. He rarely reaches the wrong conclusion with faulty reasoning. Quite true. He generally reaches the wrong conclusion with brilliant reasoning. Intellectually dishonest, but brilliant. Warning: 1L thinking! I don't know, Scalia very seldom uses appeals to emotion or political whims, like Kennedy and Ginsberg do, & O'Connor did. I am finding that Strict Constructionism and Textualism are my religion at the Shrine of Law School...Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #81 April 4, 2007 My problem is that I cannot find "intellectual dishonesty" and "brilliant reasoning" to be compatible. If somebody goes from points A to B to C to D without making any stretches or positing them on any apparent emotion, then I find a greater degree of trust and therefore honesty with it. Isn't it difficult to say that someone whose judgments are based on logic and reasoning that appear to be inarguable is "intellectually dishonest?" I think that the opposite is intellectually dishonest. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
