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Originally Posted by taustin
Wrong is a judgment word, and as such, a statement of opinion. And it's a very emotionally loaded word. The SC makes mistakes, and reverses itself within a few years - but not very often. Most of the time, when they reverse a previous decision, it's because conditions have changed. The original ruling was right for its time, but society has changed, and somebody has figured out how to game the system to their own advantage, making the original ruling a bad idea now. I have some personal knowledge of one such case, but it's completely off topic here.
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Indeed. My point was merely that the value judgment of right and wrong does not always coincide with the issue of Constitutionality.
You replied to rcentros' comment about right and wrong with a statement about the SC's authority on Constitutionality.
For example, the SC at one time may have been correct in upholding slavery as Constitutional, but it was always wrong.
So I didn't think your reply to rcentros was on target.
The SC did NOT disagree about it being wrong, they only disagreed about it being unconstitutional.
Amazon should do it because it's right, not because the SC says they have to.
And I don't mean just because it's "right" in the moral sense, I mean because it's the right way to keep a quality workforce, same as having a good benefits package or offering lots of vacation time.
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