Bull session
This is from Maureen Dowd's NYT column today:
“Same-sex couples have every other right,” Chief Justice John Roberts said, sounding inane for a big brain. “It’s just about the label in this case.” He continued, “If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, ‘This is my friend,’ but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend.”
This is entirely unintelligible to me. It sounds like the remark of someone who hasn't thought before speaking. What's the difference between telling a child he has to be someone's friend and making him say it? What is the analogy here? WHo in the real-world analog is the child, who is the friend, and who is the person saying the child must be a friend? What definition has been changed by asserting a lie?
“Same-sex couples have every other right,” Chief Justice John Roberts said, sounding inane for a big brain. “It’s just about the label in this case.” He continued, “If you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, ‘This is my friend,’ but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend.”
This is entirely unintelligible to me. It sounds like the remark of someone who hasn't thought before speaking. What's the difference between telling a child he has to be someone's friend and making him say it? What is the analogy here? WHo in the real-world analog is the child, who is the friend, and who is the person saying the child must be a friend? What definition has been changed by asserting a lie?
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