While preparing for today’s stand up philosophy, I responded to a few editorials on other websites. I do a great deal of responding whenever a lonely little though crosses the vast gulf between my spacious ears. It has always troubled me that the function of judges was to ‘interpret’ the law. When did we start writing laws in Sanscrit? My English needs work; however, I do not need my own writing interpreted for me.

There was a fictional story involving a perfect Constitution. A wise man understood that there could be no perfect Constitution. Once such a document is written, vandals will go about binding it to their will even if they have to change the meaning of the words on the pages. Would it not be fair to identify such rewriting by dictionary as ‘interpreting?’ Interpreters would be translating a document into language simple enough for their inferiors to understand.

This is why you really should vote for Girdy. He simply is not cleaver enough to come up with a plan like this. It is not that he thinks that you are too stupid to understand that he is taking advantage of you. The truth is that Girdy does not care what you think of him. Such invulnerability to public opinion is why we have an ‘independent judiciary.’

I have been in a number of discussions about the rewriting of history and conspiracies in general. Being paranoid serves writers well when it comes to storylines. Many people dismiss these two premises in the real world, wherever that is, because it would be too difficult to keep such large secrets. My response is that conspiracies do not have to be secret as much as they have to be dismissed by the people that they are aimed at. What if conspiracies are the natural state of Man?

We presume that the motive for evil is evil. I believe that the greatest single cause of war is the belief that there has to be a better way. Do the people who have convinced us that we need interpreters to understand the contracts we have with our governments honestly believe that we need them to find the justice in such documents? Is it just possible that the motive for evil is often the perception of good? Even if I am wrong in my reasoning, I have provided plenty of filler for today’s comic.

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