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Comment author: Vulture 07 January 2014 03:33:43AM 0 points [-]

Or in the legal arena: "the Constitution is not a suicide pact."

Completely tangentially, what does this mean?

Comment author: Lumifer 07 January 2014 04:09:02AM 9 points [-]

what does this mean?

In theory it means that it's better to NOT follow the (established / agreed-to) rules when it clearly leads to major negative consequences.

In practice it usually means "We really want to do this and we're not going to have mere laws stand in our way".

Comment author: Vulture 07 January 2014 04:47:50AM 0 points [-]

Got it, thanks. It's a nice pithy way of phrasing it.