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Russia lauding torture was unthinkable โ now it is proud to do so
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What really confuses me is the expectation that they should never change. Doing so is essentially seen as an act of blasphemy.
These people will say "But amendment XYZ says this!!", but the second anybody wants to amend it again, they lose their bloody minds.
Sometimes I want the country I live in to have an actual codified constitution, but other times I look over to the US and I'm wary of that "constitution cult" mentality spreading...
In my opinion, the big problem is it wasn't interpreted strictly enough for way too long. If it had been ruled super strictly from the beginning, as little wiggle room as possible, amending it regularly would have been necessary in order for the government to function at all, and thus a constitutional amendment wouldn't be considered such a wild or difficult thing.