alt Hacker News> Why should anyone assume good faith about or trust any part of the government?
Because we’re not all paranoid libertarians? I dunno man, going through life with that attitude seems like a recipe for unhappiness and frustration.
It’s not about judges being inconsistent. It’s about providing good judgements, which are appropriate to the specific circumstances.
>going through life with that attitude seems like a recipe for unhappiness and frustration.
Going through life in blissful ignorance of the incompetence and malice driving the systems of violence and control around you is even worse. Unhappiness and frustration are necessary prerequisites to any improvements to quality of life. Terminally happy people are just grazing cattle, fit only for the slaughterhouse.