Re:Lord Camden on NSA Surveillance
by roc on Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:40AM
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> "I don't see how pressure can be applied to a position with a lifetime appointment."
People don't have to be forced to do things to make effectively political decisions. Being incentivized also works. And social incentive seems to work at least as well as monetary incentive.
People have families and lives and friends.
Consider that the "broccoli" argument against the PPACA's personal mandate -- an argument broadly laughed off by constitutional scholars -- was echoed verbatim by justices with mere social connections to the groups who originally espoused said laughable argument.
People don't have to be forced to do things to make effectively political decisions. Being incentivized also works. And social incentive seems to work at least as well as monetary incentive.
People have families and lives and friends.
Consider that the "broccoli" argument against the PPACA's personal mandate -- an argument broadly laughed off by constitutional scholars -- was echoed verbatim by justices with mere social connections to the groups who originally espoused said laughable argument.