 Paul, thank you. Paul has a hundred dollar question on the topic. Thanks for being this up because I was going to but since you asked the question It's easier to do From the perspective of the question Can you explain what exactly 9th Amendment is being ignored that the 9th Amendment is being ignored by Alito and the conservative cabal in their opinion? Yes, I mean the 9th Amendment Basically says that the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are not all our rights That we have rights that are not enumerated because you can't just enumerate all the things that you ever write to And that these are just indications Now Alito doesn't completely ignore this But he has this weird view of what the enumerated rights The the unenumerated rights should be all They have to be Have been recognized At the time of the writing of the Constitution as rights They have to have historical precedent They have to be something that historically was protected in the United States than their rights So notice there's no philosophical view of what human individual rights are There's no view of these the kind of things that constitutes individual rights This is what you have a right to in principle. This is what you'd guide us a definition of rights. No Huh, I wonder what people in the 18th century early 19th century thought was okay Oh, we can't include slavery in that because we got a 14th Amendment that does away with that But pretty much everything else what was okay back then and and if they viewed it is okay back then then We should count it as you know, it has to have a history Why? So there weren't a lot of abortions in the 18th and 19th century early 20th century not a lot of abortions They were abortions and and abortion wasn't considered something that was okay Or partially because it was pretty brutal unsafe Unbelievably risky Didn't have the technology So, yeah, it wasn't that prevalent plus we lived in a Society that was far more religious So we can't take into account Any changes that have happened since then the fact that it was wasn't legal back then and it is legal now The fact that it's safe for now It's easier to do now You can take a pill That is irrelevant to the discussion It really is a kind of kind of anti-intellectualism Yes, anti-intellectualism. There's no principle of rights. There's no idea of rights from which I can then think of and then apply What this principle actually means now I have to Digest the text and and figure out from the text what it actually means and if the text is not clear because the Constitution doesn't mention Abortion ultimately talk about concrete bound mentality if the Constitution doesn't mention abortion. Well, then it's not covered Well, okay, so we won't just use mentioning abortion We'll also ask the question because there's a 9th Amendment after all Is there some other context in which the founders might have thought that abortion would be legal? No, okay. Well Thank You wonder Freeman. Yes, they treat the Constitution like the Bible They treat the the the founding fathers as sages or as prophets They try to read their mind like they try to read God's mind There's no application of the idea of individual rights to all these issues some of these issues are new because things change it's I mean the right today and and and I think this this shows it the right today is so anti-intellectual So anti-intellectual and you can see it here you can sit on sorry if I'm gonna pick on some of you and and and and Get angry with you, but so be it Somebody says the the vagina is magical portal into individuality God, I mean if you don't if you can't see the difference between an entity that is Individuated and an entity that's inside another entity. I mean I have nothing to say to you There's a difference And of course rovers his weight is not about abortions five minutes before Before birth those never happen and if you think that the cells From conception or human being I Mean that's anti-intellectual. That's non-thinking. It's not even bad thinking. It's just non-thinking And I'm sorry if I've insulted a bunch of you. I don't really care think Look Use your mind so What you need to know to understand the 9th Amendment is a proper conception of individual rights and A proper conception of what they are protecting they're protecting the freedom of action of an individual The freedom over his body the freedom of his actions the freedom over his mind And then the question is okay. Well, what does that imply about all these things that human beings do? And it means that you have a right you have a right to live you have a right to act You have a right to act based on your own judgment free of coercion free of authority free of force and That encompasses all your actions it doesn't stop somewhere because somebody's offended by it As long as you're not putting other people as long as you're not violating other people's rights by coaxing them or by using force against them By stealing from them by violating their property rights or whatever And you have a right to do Pretty much anything it doesn't mean that's what rights are they for But you have a right to take drugs. Yeah, and this is what they're afraid of see this is why they can't protect individual rights This is why they won't protect individual rights This is why they won't recognize what the 9th Amendment actually means because if they recognize that you have a right To your own decisions and your own actions Even when other people disagree with them even when they might be harmful to yourself Whoa, that opens up a can of worms for the Conservatives a Whole can of worms for the Conservatives. No, what about drugs? What about prostitution? What about suicide? What about a lot of things? What about contracts? What about minimum, you know wanting to pay your workers less than a minimum wage? What about any of these things? so It's it's They're purposefully Ignoring the 9th Amendment that purposely ignoring the concept of rights. I think I've told you in the past Scalia who is somebody who is considered You know the guru of the Conservatives, right? Said that rights are nonsense on stilts You know basically quoting Bentham He didn't believe in individual rights. He believed in the Constitution as Bible but not in individual rights So, you know individual rights are dead in this country the concept the legal protection the legal idea of them It's gone. It's over. It's finished. We're gonna have to start in many respects. We're gonna have to start from scratch Thank you Paul Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. 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