Usually when someone brings up some hypothetical that's truly disturbing or outré - "What would you do if your own spouse tried to murder you in your bed?" - it's considered fair to say "I'd have to see what I did when it happened"https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1314301356635758601 …
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Generally it's not because you actually don't know Most of us, when faced with a question like that, DO know and can think of an answer pretty quickly ("Once I was convinced they were really trying to kill me, I would fight back in self-defense as hard as I could")
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But in a social situation if you know you're being baited you don't give the answer because then the dishonest interlocutor will focus on the shocking nature of your anger ("THIS GUY JUST ADMITTED HE MIGHT HIT HIS WIFE") and not the shocking nature of the QUESTION
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The ACB nomination, in and of itself, is a shocking norms violation and a constitutional crisis It should not be happening at all If court-packing happens, it will be shocking because it was a shocking RESPONSE to a shocking instigation
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But Biden is obviously trying to steer the conversation as much as possible to taking the ACB nomination off the table completely rather than treating it as some kind of fait accompli Just like the right response to the hypothetical is "I don't believe my spouse would do that"
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