Christian Turner
A federal appeals court judge wrote this.
Aug 16, 2023 at 8:43pmWeb
Show threadMartha LemertAug 16, 2023
@christor
I’m going to guess a male judge wrote this. What exactly is an “aesthetic injury?” Pimples?
Show threadAngry CentristAug 16, 2023
@MartyLemert @christor I think it's the pain I feel when I see bad architecture.
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAAug 17, 2023
@MartyLemert @christor interestingly, I don’t think that constitutes a real injury that the court can redress…
Show threadHalf Cocked LawAug 16, 2023
@christor I also experience an aesthetic injury when a picture is crooked. It's still not a concrete injury to me. Ho is a tramp.
Show threadCorey Rayburn YungAug 16, 2023
@christor WTF??? "[A]esthetic injury?!?!?"
Show threadChristian TurnerAug 16, 2023
@coreyrayburnyung “for those who view them”… whole thing reads like it was written by an alien trying to simulate the emotions they’d imagine human parents might have
Show thread@CharleneTegliaAug 16, 2023
@christor I think they mean financial injury. Because pregnancy and birth are HUUUGE bills.
Show threadDavid Erik Nelson🪬Aug 16, 2023
@christor The Honorable ChatGPT, presiding?
Show threadtriswebAug 16, 2023
@christor an aesthetic injury.
Show threadk cavaliereAug 16, 2023
@christor "Aesthetic injury"? That phrase is a linguistic injury.
Show threadMark Malowany 🇨🇦Aug 16, 2023
@christor 😐
Show threadEpiphanic SynchronicityAug 16, 2023

@christor Who was the judge, what was the case, and when? I couldn’t find it after multiple web searches.

But this came up, which I find an incredibly powerful answer to the quote above: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10357009-the-unborn-are-a-convenient-group-of-people-to-advocate )

A quote by Dave Barnhart

The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, ad...

Show threadChristian TurnerAug 16, 2023
@EpiphanicSynchronicity https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145/gov.uscourts.ca5.213145.543.1_1.pdf
Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Aug 17, 2023

@christor all other things notwithstanding, i did not expect the last sentence.

@glennf

Show threadscribandotcomAug 17, 2023
@christor I liked the part where, in Ho’s analogy, a pregnant person’s body is a public park, basically.
Show threada variety of corvidAug 17, 2023
@christor "aesthetic injury" — wait 'til they bust out "counterfactual injury" in defense of banning condoms, vasectomies, onanism, etc.
Show threadDavid H. McCoyAug 17, 2023

@christor

Ugh.

Show threadCaribouKaiAug 17, 2023
@christor Gross! :D
Show threadRosemary McNaughtonAug 17, 2023
@christor I find it an aesthetic injury to contemplate the sorry fate of someone carrying a fetus they did not consent to continue carrying. For someone’s body to be taken over by other people’s expectations…Simply wretched.
Show threadEvelynAug 17, 2023
@christor @Nonya_Bidniss If “depriving other people of joy” were a crime, this guy would be on death row.
Show threadEvelynAug 17, 2023
@christor @Nonya_Bidniss If I may take leave to correct you, Your Honor, “aesthetic injury” is when I hit you over the head with the Mona Lisa.
Show threadJohn "John Davies" Davies ☑️Aug 17, 2023
@gorfram @christor @Nonya_Bidniss That would hurt, because it's mounted behind bulletproof glass.
Show threadEvelynAug 17, 2023
@johnnyd_cm @christor @Nonya_Bidniss I never said I wouldn’t leave the whole damned Louvre attached.
Show threadJohn "John Davies" Davies ☑️Aug 17, 2023
@gorfram @christor @Nonya_Bidniss in which case, it would definitely sting a bit!
Show threadMadisonMonkeyAug 17, 2023
@christor we are not a nation ruled by laws but by powerful people so how about we make damn sure we have the right ones in positions of power