It is a justification for delivering those services differently.
I don't think it's a justification that holds for other sitcoms.
It is a bit of a red herring to suggest that just because it can't be enforced that it is a justification for ignoring something.
It is a justification of the surgeon's manual skills in this hi-tech age: the information we had before the operation - that there was one lymph node that had disappeared with chemotherapy - was simply what the machines revealed.
"If it's a justification that it's OK, they're pros, they all do it anyway – then the question becomes, for mums and dads out there, at what age are you willing to inject a steroid or other performance-enhancing drug into your child because that's what it takes to get to the next level.
They range from conservatives such as Robert Bork, who think the phrase encapsulates the "emptiness at the heart of American ideology", to liberals who think that it is a justification for an acquisitive society.One criticism is that the pursuit is self-defeating.
The justification is "public" because it is a justification that encompasses a public, though it does so severally and individually.
It's a justification that's never fully held up under scrutiny, and in the case of this South Carolina outrage, it falls apart completely.
But it's a justification that – while seemingly legitimate – hasn't garnered much in the way of support from the local population.
