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Google Tries to Pay Off the Antitrust Division & said juries (normal people) cannot decide hard cases.
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this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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Juries are vital. Yes we should be able to select for understanding and knowledge, but they’re also there to represent the will of the people from whom the government derives its power.
If the people are too uneducated to understand things then maybe we need to fund education better.
They are not vital. Almost no countries in the world practice trial by jury other than The US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. The US is the only country in the world that uses trial by jury for civil cases.
The law is complex and nuanced. Most people lack the understanding and background to apply the law justly and uniformly. It is an antiquated idea that should go.
Yes, we should let the unbiased and just judicial system remove any potential check on it's power through the exclusion of a jury. Surely then things will be better. In fact I can't think of a single situation where allowing a judge and some lawyers to interpret the nuances of law led to anything terrible.
Nope, it's the stupid idiots who don't know anything about.... What ever I want to make up right now