# The Supreme Court may be considering the legalization of bribery

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**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-may-be-considering-the-legalization-of-bribery/753877 "2016-05-04T12:45:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-supreme-court-may-be-considering-the-legalization-of-bribery/753877/26 "2016-05-05T02:43:25Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> How about your own brain?

Why use your own brain when you can appeal to authority without even understanding the topic at hand?

> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Now I am not myself any sort of legal scholar, but I can make reasonable judgments about the relative credibility of the sources of different perspectives.

Deja vu from another thread:

> [@Why GMO labeling is a good idea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-gmo-labeling-is-a-good-idea/748508/115):
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> I came into this saying I had no technical knowledge of the subject

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