8trackdisco wrote:Would you feel different if they were your family? The most important people in your world.
yes, I would.
Exactly why my presence on your jury would be unacceptable.
do you understand the importance of preserving the greatest system of justice depends on those NOT emotionally involved?
Take the OJ insanity. Imagine he didn't do it, but dipchit planted evidence and got him convicted. Or imagine he didn't do it but dipchit planted evidence and he was executed.
Preventing dipchits from framing us is so much more important to our freedoms than a few guilty creeps from getting off that I am amazed anyone would disagree.
Why do you think juries are comprised of people that theoretically know very little about the case?
The answer: so they can have a fair trial.
Yet again, but hopefully not, someday you may be thankful that it works this way if you get railroaded by false charges by a police/government that doesn't like your act.
Much bigger picture.