Since ancient Athens juries have decided on matters of justice. This manifests itself today as 12 people, randomly selected from the electoral roll, reviewing all available evidence and coming to a, preferably unanimous, decision by discussion of the evidence in private. Do you trust your fellow members of the general public to come to a reasoned decision? The key word here is reasoned. Are you satisfied with the powers of logic of the vast majority of the general public? I will be intrested to hear people's opinions and arguments on this point.
Richard Dawkins has written an essay on this topic here: http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1997-11-16trialbyjury.shtml
2006-09-06
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