Wednesday, August 18, 2021

HUMAN INFALLIBILITY OF ANY KIND IS RIDICULOUS

O.K. if your religious beliefs include that of papal infallibility, then maybe I won't argue with you on that one. Just about every other suggestion that a human being is infallible based upon their exalted status is however just so much hooey. Thankfully we all know that our politicians are fallible. Be it Donald Trump, Doug Ford, Katherine Wynne, Justin Trudeau or whomever nobody seriously suggests out loud that they are infallible. Hmm wait a minute. Didn't Donald Trump once suggest that he could commit murder in Times Square in front of hundreds of witnesses and still be acquitted? So let me amend my statement: nobody over the age of ten, with an IQ higher than 65, would suggest that even Donald Trump was infallible. ............................................................................................... Sports heroes perhaps? No enough of them have made publicly awful statements over the decades to exclude them from the state of infallibility. How about Hollywood actors or actresses? Well a lot of them have become involved with Scientology which doesn't bode well for claims of infallibility. ......................................................................................................................... Judges? Well fortunately the well off, via means of appeals, have overturned literally thousands of stupid decisions also over the decades. Some of the stupid decisions were misinterpretations of the law. Some were simple slips of the tongue by the judge for example in instructing the jury. Some were bias plain and simple and convictions of Black people based primarly on skin colour and outdtaed belief systems have been common. Similarly acquittals of male assailants with female victims have also been far too prevalent based on sterotypes of "proper" behaviour or dress. The examples go on and on. .................................................................................................... My advice is to be careful in judging someone based upon an adverse judicial decision, especially a single one over a lifetime. Yes people make mistakes but so do judges, prosecutors, police and our entire judicial system. Locally just look at Robert Reilly's behaviour and some of his decisions.

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