This isn&#x27;t really directed at you, but it seems like a good place to address the crowd.<p>I didn&#x27;t say the man was a saint or that he was always perfectly intellectually honest all the time. No one is.<p>But I think was a lot more of those things than he often got credit for. Some of you seem to forget that people who have different opinions than you are also people. And as such, they have the right to try to get those opinions represented. Scalia&#x27;s attitude towards torture was repulsive in my opinion. But he represents the attitudes of a very large number of real people.<p>It&#x27;s not like he&#x27;s some kind of singular monster or something.<p>As for saying crass things, giving people shit when maybe he shouldn&#x27;t have, well, we&#x27;ve all done that too.<p>I figure if there&#x27;s one day you can cut a guy a little slack, it&#x27;s the day he dies. Sheesh, if you can&#x27;t find one tiny little positive thing to say about the man, I suggest that you aren&#x27;t even trying. It&#x27;s not like the man was pure evil.<p>I further suggest that you say nothing at all if you honestly can&#x27;t think of anything good about him.<p>The vitriol in much of this thread is utterly tasteless and shameful.