# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 798
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/798 "2019-04-25T15:30:43Z")
I’ve made a genuine offer for **HD** to join me in a discussion of his legal principles, or lack thereof: > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/20): > > I’ll note that your opinion of the law tends to vary based on what’s good for your political opinions. That’s less than quaint, that’s an unprincipled view of the rule of law. > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/26): > > I feel the same way about your opinion of the law. > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/29): > > Except that this opinion is based on nothing more than the laughable “everyone does it!” nonsense embraced by partisans. Look back through my posting history and you’ll see tons of times where I have found that the law does not support what is good for my politics. I believe in the threads about Bears Ears and tax cuts you stated something to the effect that you support whatever policies are good for you personally, and don’t really care about the process. I can state unequivocally that I reject your “ends justify the means” approach to the law. > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/31): > > Now you’ve tried a very lame bait and switch. I generally support _policies_ that are good for me personally, but that tells us nothing about my view of “the law”. There was no serious legal / constitutional issue with shrinking Bears Ears or cutting my taxes. Do you have any actual examples where my “opinion of the law tends to vary based on what’s good for [my] political opinions”? > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/32): > > Sure, but since this is about you personally I’ll post them in the Pit thread and we can have a discussion of it over there. Sound good? > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/34): > > You can post whatever you like over there. I prefer to have discussions in places where people are expected to behave somewhat less like juveniles, so I won’t be joining you there. > [@Supreme Court looks likely to approve Census citizenship question by 5-4 vote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-looks-likely-to-approve-census-citizenship-question-by-5-4-vote/833025/35): > > I’m happy to keep it civil, but since the topic is you personally, in my opinion hijacking this thread is inappropriate, and I don’t see that any other forum is really in the sweet spot of discussions of your principles and politics. If you don’t like the way the discussion unfolds, you can always just stop showing up. Let’s see what happens. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952)._