A day or two after the news that Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had died, a Facebook Friend whom I greatly admire posted this on her FB Timeline:
I’ve been seeing a lot of vitriolic gloating diatribes about Scalia’s death. But I don’t think this is a constructive attitude. How we frame our responses to events does matter. To me, the kind of reflection in this link leads more directly to a world where there’s a place for everyone rather than a world where it’s us against “them”.
Here is the link she was referring to, which is a wonderful piece about the fact that the most conservative and the most liberal of the Supreme Court justices were, despite their political differences, quite close friends: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/14/10990156/scalia-ginsburg-friends
I am very grateful to this friend for her message. Let us all strive do just what Ruth and Antonin did. They admired each other, they honored each other, and they didn’t let their political differences get in the way of that.