The first bit just means that I was laying out some reasons that Holden missed, but I didn’t mean to imply they were the most important reasons. For example, we have a pro tanto duty not to lie, but you should still lie if it’s necessary to save people in your attic from being murdered, because saving people from murdered is a more important reason.
The second bit refers to a legal doctrine whereby once a decision has been made, it shouldn’t be changed by subsequent courts, even if they think the decision was wrong. The idea is to promote predictable and consistent law, but the disadvantage is that it makes it difficult/impossible to correct previous mistakes. And yes I misremembered my latin, sorry!
Ahh, sorry!
The first bit just means that I was laying out some reasons that Holden missed, but I didn’t mean to imply they were the most important reasons. For example, we have a pro tanto duty not to lie, but you should still lie if it’s necessary to save people in your attic from being murdered, because saving people from murdered is a more important reason.
The second bit refers to a legal doctrine whereby once a decision has been made, it shouldn’t be changed by subsequent courts, even if they think the decision was wrong. The idea is to promote predictable and consistent law, but the disadvantage is that it makes it difficult/impossible to correct previous mistakes. And yes I misremembered my latin, sorry!