09-03-2015, 09:28 AM
So this really is a very interesting discussion. In my opinion Kimmy really has two choices here in her role as Clerk: she can either have her office carry out the duties as they are supposed to, or she can resign because carrying out those duties causes her personal conflict.
Her attempt to classify herself as a civilian conscientious objector is a novel approach, but probably has little chance of success. Imagine if government employees could claim conscientious objector status! What an even bigger fuckaroo we'd have on our hands.
However, Kimmy is just following plenty of other government employees who have willfully and arrogantly chosen to ignore laws. Government officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution, the laws of the land. They don't take an oath to only uphold the parts they are fond of, but in many instances that is exactly what happens. I call it a form of legal relativism, and at every level that is dangerous for our republic. We either follow the law or we don't - the ordered society demands that, or we slouch towards something else.
Her attempt to classify herself as a civilian conscientious objector is a novel approach, but probably has little chance of success. Imagine if government employees could claim conscientious objector status! What an even bigger fuckaroo we'd have on our hands.
However, Kimmy is just following plenty of other government employees who have willfully and arrogantly chosen to ignore laws. Government officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution, the laws of the land. They don't take an oath to only uphold the parts they are fond of, but in many instances that is exactly what happens. I call it a form of legal relativism, and at every level that is dangerous for our republic. We either follow the law or we don't - the ordered society demands that, or we slouch towards something else.