A quick recap of The World According to Dick: the ends justify the means, the invasion of Iraq was right (even though the justification for it was wrong), Guantanamo is a "first-rate facility" that should remain open until "the end of the war on terror" (though, he admits, "nobody knows" when that will be).
Even the moral justification that the shareholder is the owner and an owner gets what they want when they want it is a myth.
Even the Democratic justification for an override vote sure to fail is, as the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, put it, to create a record so the issue can be resolved by the courts.
Even the attempted justification of the standard of usefulness by reference to the will of tian or Heaven (in chapter 26) has a suspect circularity to it.
Comey's conduct during the Clinton investigation was even the underlying justification the Trump administration provided last spring to explain Trump firing Comey.
Moreover, the companies had to make what are turning out to be unrealistic promises to Wall Street to provide even the slimmest justifications for the huge values they were being accorded.
Grotius argued that wars of aggression are legal as long as states provide justification for them, but that even when the justifications prove to be shams the winners have a right to keep whatever they have managed to seize.
Despite the secondary role of these aspects, subsequent decisions have focused solely on these four characteristics without even mentioning the justifications that originally supported constitutional protection.
On the one hand, not only does she not abandon him, she devotes the rest of her life to him; on the other hand, she rejects not only his attempted justifications, but even the possibility of justification itself.
But even that justification has not been offered.
