This dude bothers me. Has nothing aroused his curiosity, not in ten years of thousands of highly contentious legal questions that find their way to the highest court in the land? Questions that arrouse our most irreconcilable intuitions about the world?

I admit that I don't know the man. But his behavior is not universilizable, he has to benefit or be influenced by the other Supreme Court Justices' questions and the points that they raise. But if we were to use his example, oral arguments would be met with complete silence and advocates would not be able suss out and hope to correct misinterpretations of their arguments.