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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 1131 | I'd never heard of Red Friday before this survey. | Do you know about Red Friday? |
| 1132 | What does it mean to respect their point of view while continuing to use the drugs? To say you respect their point of view while at the same time "murdering children" has to seem one of the most horrific examples of hypocrisy possible to them. | Should doctors and other health care providers be allowed to refuse treatment based on their personal beliefs? |
| 1133 | I have lots of opinions about various aspects of our legal system, including jury selection. I'll try not to blather on for too long.
First off, I am against any form of involuntary servitude, no matter what you name it. Call it selective service or jury duty and it's still wrong. People should serve on a jury of their free choice and only of their free choice. If that means, to get sufficient numbers of jurors, that you have to pay them a reasonable amount for their time, that's appropriate. (Along with that I think the loser, in general, ought to pay the court costs, including the jurors fees, and there should be no distinction between civil and criminal cases, but that's getting rather far afield from the original question.) Then the jurors should be randomly selected from that pool of volunteers. Each juror should be asked if they have any reason why they can't be objective in their deliberations. They may be dismissed if they answer 'yes'. That's it. No more questions and no peremptory challenges. | What do you think about the jury selection system in the United States? |
| 1134 | Not based on anything from Heinlein as far as I know. It's actually more consciously based on some work by Eric Klein (not entirely sure of spelling) from a defunct project called Oceania, the Atlantis Project. I think you're right that it's possible, even likely, that a group of professional jurors would arise. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not.
It wouldn't have to be entirely the honor system to determine if a juror is biased. There could be the option of bringing legal proceedings against a juror who misrepresented the truth in saying they were not biased. The problem is exactly what you get to at the end. It seems "obvious" that we need to be able to remove people are are clearly biased. However, that path leads to where we are now with peremptory challenges and anyone who knows anything about the subject of the trial being removed for "cause". Better I think (though not perfect of course) to have the jury be randomly selected from the juror pool. You can guarantee biased people from time to time, but the system we have now seems to systematically generate bad juries. | What do you think about the jury selection system in the United States? |
| 1135 | The trend towards becoming a police state. | What do you think is/are the worst thing(s) about the United States? |
| 1136 | > Can individuals rebuild a city that's bne hurt by a terrorist attack?
> Can indiividuals put together an armed forces to defned us? Yes, of course. In fact, those things can only be done by individuals. They may be individuals working together, but they're all still individuals. Now you might ask if such things are done better by individuals working together of their own free wills or working together because they're forced to do so. I have a strong preference for freedom which I understand is not the majority opinion. I can live with that. | What do you think is/are the worst thing(s) about the United States? |
| 1137 | I believe the Harry Potter books exist, I've held them in my hands, but I don't believe they describe real events. The two questions are quite separate. | How true are the events in the Bible? |
| 1138 | So you simply repeat something that's clearly and obviously (and has been explained to you multiple times) a nonsense statement. | How true are the events in the Bible? |
| 1139 | I have three Bibles on my bookshelves. I believe the evidence of my eyes and hands and yes, the book most definitely exists. | How true are the events in the Bible? |
| 1140 | And yet she seems unwilling to simply come out and say it. The statement "I believe in the Bible" is so ambiguous as to be utterly utterly void of meaning. And the nonsense of "you either believe in the Bible or you don't" is demonstrably false. If she believes that the events described in the Bible are literally true, exactly as written, why not simply state so? | How true are the events in the Bible? |
