{"id":533,"date":"2007-10-11T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=533"},"modified":"2007-10-11T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T03:57:24","slug":"consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight. When we site other nations&#8217; legal ruling in support of forbidding the death penalty to minors, it&#8217;s bad bad evil evil. But it&#8217;s perfectly fine to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/bstephens\/?id=110010709\">site<\/a> a <em>30 year old<\/em> ruling from a foreign court in support of torture &#8211; even one that the court itself now <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/10\/the-european-co.html\">regrets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gotchya.<\/p>\n<p>My problem, you see, is that I tend to think about issues the same way. Issue after issue, I identify my principles, work through the arguments and get an answer. I&#8217;m not supposed to do that. I&#8217;m just supposed to accept that everything George Bush wants to do is right and find justification &#8212; any justification at all &#8212; for his positions.<\/p>\n<p>And here I was, going and thinking for myself. Idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let me get this straight. When we site other nations&#8217; legal ruling in support of forbidding the death penalty to minors, it&#8217;s bad bad evil evil. But it&#8217;s perfectly fine to site a 30 year old ruling from a foreign court in support of torture &#8211; even one that the court itself now regrets. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Consistency<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}