dollardoctrinaire

Sorry to restart this old thread. But I just wanted to add that feminism is one of the forms of collectivism I vehemently oppose. I believe feminism is at the root of enslavement of women under socialist barbarism, like Canada or the UK (where most people, especially capitalists, are enslaved to the government). It is pure evil and is totally anti-individual. By requiring women to be equal to men, feminism artificially creates two collectives "men" and "women", whereas such stupid distinctions do not really exist (we are all individuals and nothing can make us part of any collective whatsoever, especially our sex organs).

Any more thoughts?

@maarten they take out the ones more familiarized with any element of the case because neutrality is seeked among the jurors, not expert witnesses, and obviously to avoid bias and conflicts of interest.

@therights

There is one context in which your original proposition applies. Consider a trial in which the defense committed a victimless offense against the state (like selling whisky during the late 20s). In such a case, or similar, jurors are being used to take the moral responsibility of the state's transgressions by having no choice but to deliberate on whether someone committed or not an offense against X law or regulation, not decide whether X law should exist.
They can't even consider whether it's moral to destroy a human's life for the specifics of law "X", for the sanctity of any arbitrary law symbolizes the sanctity of the whole legal system.
Therefore deciding whether someone sold or merely possessed a can of whiskey in the 1920s is contained within the same system that decides whether a man took another's life - and treated with the same gravity.

Much like Democracy, the fact that there is no seemingly better system doesn't mean that both aren't horrible beyond toleration.

Locals Protest Mosque That's Actually a Church
By Max Fisher | November 16, 2010 12:08pm



Some vigilant citizens in Phoenix, Arizona are up in arms over a domed church that they wrongly believe to be a mosque. The large building, still under construction along a busy interstate, is actually a nondenominational church. The backlash has been severe enough that the church's leaders have hung a giant banner over the dome: "IF YOU THINK DIFFERENT YOU ARE WRONG -- WE ARE BUILDING A CHRISTIAN HOUSE OF WORSHIP." The incident suggests that the widespread backlash against Muslim-American centers, which began this summer in reaction to the planned Cordoba House in New York, may still not have fully receded.

Phoenix's CBS affiliate KPHO reports, "People behind a new church in Phoenix are trying to stay ahead of any potential controversy or hate that accompanied the announcement of a proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City."

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