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I thought the USA did away with that whole issue of precedent when they took out row v wade?
You don't get it. It was never about past decisions guiding or restricting future ones.
What precedent is: a) to be used as an argument and b) a way for the high court to set rules for lower ones to abide by... Until the next recalibration.
Precedent isn’t a permanently binding law. The entire point of the judicial branch is that they get to interpret the law and decide when it applies. Precedent is binding on an individual basis, in that a particular judge or subset of judges are supposed to follow the precedent set by their court, but they have the ability to reinterpret that precedent, it usually just has to be done by the full circuit of judges or a higher court.
What happened to Roe v Wade sucks in a practical cause and effect level, but this process is necessary when you look at it in the context of this very case. If this case were to go south for this guy, you don’t want the precedent to forever be that this behavior is illegal on its face. Especially when decided by potentially one single judge. There has to be a path for a more balanced group of individuals to fix blind spots like that.
Another thing that complicates this is that America isn’t functionally just one nation with a set of laws and federal judges and a constitution, it’s 50 countries each with their own distinct laws, their own constitution, and their own judges. Federal law is just a loose binding box that’s supposed to keep the 50 states from getting too wacky.
Stare decisis is, and has always been, for suckers.
Yet -- somehow -- the selectively of enforcement is too vague to let Americans become aware of it.
I didnt think they taught americans how to read or comprehend any more. Its no wonder they are all trapped on tictok or foxnews.
They really don't.
I have been saying for a couple years now that there's a distinct lack of critical thinking here in the US, and it's mostly due to our education system being built to teach you to be compliant and get you used to a strict schedule with a bell, much like at old factory jobs.
I thought most of the schooling system was to build engineers in the 50s then it got moved to worker drones (corp not blue collar) and now its just take their money and run. But over all of this, the idea of dont question and consume seems to be the bedrock .
In my understanding the framework for the modern public school system (K-12) in the US was developed near the turn of the 20^th^ century to basically be a school-factory pipeline, which is why we see the strict bell structure of classes and lunch as well as beginning/end of day, and the entirely authoritarian approach of teachers who take the attitude of "Don't do that because I said so" instead of actually showing and teaching the students why they should behave and meeting them where they're at, and then are surprised when students continue to misbehave and blame overworked parents for their kids' bad behavior when the system we live under requires parents of school-age children to be absent for the majority of their children's childhood just to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head. More recently with the rise of the prison-industrial complex public schools in lower-income areas have also become a sort of school-prison pipeline, especially for minority students.
As far as colleges and universities, this is absolutely correct. Most of the students now that go through any college but especially community colleges and such will sadly never get a job in the field that they're studying for, and will end up in the service sector, which actually is what happened to me.