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TOUGH_CASES

                                              February 6, 2007

There's a slogan you hear in
legal discussions on occasion:

  "tough cases make bad laws".

It's an admission of the
limitation of abstract
systems, a Goedel's Law of        Attempting to cover every
moral reasoning.                  possible situation-- real or 
                                  hypothetical-- in a legal or 
                                  moral system leads to a
                                  convoluted, contorted set of
   Going beserk                   rules that isn't very useful
   attempting to                  in guiding behavior.
   precisely define               
   "wisdom" does not              
   seem very wise.                       EXTREMES



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