Ah! I see. You see human beings as cannon fodder.
Pardon me while I distant myself from your reasoning.....
Your response would be fine if we were talking murder,or the death of a career here, we arent. She will survive just fine on or off the bench. But unfortunately we are talking politics here and in politics sometimes you need to remove the dead weight so you can actually move along, and I think Miers, right now anyways, is becoming dead weight.