AN ANALOGY.

Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Feb 24, 2016

My Jeep has over 200,000 miles on it. It could suffer a catastrophic mechanical failure at any time.

The fact is, however, that it runs well, is fully functional and I am not reluctant to depend upon it.

If it unexpectedly stopped running I would not say, “Oh well, it was really old and had many symptoms of advanced age so I’ll just send it to the auto graveyard to be crushed for scrap.

I would take a little bit of time to understand why it suddenly went from being fully functional to stone-cold dead. Was the gas tank empty? Was the battery dead? Was the ignition switch defective? Etc. Then, when I had enough answers I would be satisfied that it was ready for the recycler.

A certain Supreme Court Justice- easily one of the 10 most influential positions in America- was old and had certain controlled medical conditions which could cause him to suffer a catastrophic, even fatal, event at any time.

He was, however, fully functional and dependable.

He failed to wake-up one morning. He was pronounced dead. There was no suspicion of foul play. There was no determination of the cause of death.

He was sent to the undertaker, embalmed, and buried after the funeral ceremony.

What killed him? Unknown.

Was anyone with him during the night? Unknown.

Is it the normal practice of the local authorities to determine cause of death in such cases? Yes.

Did local authorities determine cause of death? No.

Hmmm.

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