In sum, words have no fixed meaning.
And there are no absolute moral values or first principles, so every era, and indeed, every person, gets to make their own interpretation, which we must treat as "valid" no matter how absurd.
A NEO-MARXIST logic, if ever there was one.
Glad you're off SCOTUS, fool.
“it does not take into account the ways in which our values as a society evolve over time as we learn from the mistakes of our past.”
There is a hidden assumption in his statement—and it is truly scary.
It is the concept of progress.
Under that concept everything homo sapiens does gets better and better and better and better until we finally reach Utopia.
Does that sound like any society you know anywhere in the world?
Lol.
In the real world things get better sometimes, worse sometimes, then better again sometimes etc.
The “progress” vision is the term “progressives” use to slam dunk totalitarian measures down the throats of the peons.