re: #43 The Curmudgeon

What does bother me about Kagan’s remark is this part: “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality …”

The implicit message is that it’s this society that is uniquely afflicted by these problems. Yeah, we’re the world’s bad guys.

Most times I agree with you, however you are off base or being overly defensive here. Uniquely? It just does not logically follow, you are taking an unwarranted leap. Our society is marred by some imperfections, Charles and you both take pains to point some of those imperfections out. Among those imperfections are the two things that Kagan correctly mentions.

My wife is marred by a small scar on her chin she got from a fight with her brother 48 yrs ago, it doesn’t make me love her less….

/SC, you are trying to find something that’s not there.