Clarence Thomas appears open to making drug addiction illegal

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Clarence Thomas appears open to making drug addiction illegal
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Weird, I appear open to pushing Clarence Thomas into the Grand Canyon. He's such an astoundingly shitty human being that I don't understand how he lives with himself.

I don't understand how he lives with himself.

I mean, I get that, but there's no amount of money that could make me do the things he's done because I'd hate myself in a way money can't fix. He (and the rest of the conservatives on the court) have hurt so many people and I don't know how they aren't even a little bothered. It's like they're legal robots who can't feel empathy.

Your first mistake is thinking that people like Thomas actually feel empathy for other people that aren't them. There's been studies on this - wealth, especially extreme wealth, physiologically changes how your brain processes things like empathy, altruism, etc.