If there's one thing I'm convinced of it is this. Given enough public approval and enough lawers anything is legal.
I think that's true, but I'd suggest that that's probably how it should work: laws should reflect what the people bound by the law want, so if there's sufficient public demand for something, the laws should reflect that, and we'd consider it a failure if they didn't. Every law is reflecting somebody's values, after all.
The more interesting question is: is it legal even in spite of public approval? Or: does public demand render something pragmatically legal, even though technically it isn't? The latter seems like maybe the situation we're in here.
I think that's true, but I'd suggest that that's probably how it should work: laws should reflect what the people bound by the law want, so if there's sufficient public demand for something, the laws should reflect that, and we'd consider it a failure if they didn't. Every law is reflecting somebody's values, after all.
The more interesting question is: is it legal even in spite of public approval? Or: does public demand render something pragmatically legal, even though technically it isn't? The latter seems like maybe the situation we're in here.