Something that really irritates me in courtrooms is the fact that losses and gains aren't considered. I'd like more psychological analysis, lie tests, and investigating. Alright, I've not been in very many courtrooms, but it does seem like things are swayed an awful lot, and I just think, given the human race's capacity to think things through, a jury of 12 people really isn't very foolproof. In most cases, maybe, but not in the very hard ones. Are the jurors prepped at all? Are they all double-checked by psychoanalysts? How do you judge morality in individuals?
As society's views on everything change, so do it's ideas of justice. I mean, look, back in the 1700s our way of telling if a woman was guilty of witchcraft was to dunk her in a lake and see if she drowned. I wonder where justice will go from where we are now. I am inspired by the fact that many people prepare for a career of law because of moral reasons.
Personally, I would like to learn more about copyright laws.
Some interesting facts:
Because it's nearly Halloween, and after making that statement about witches I got curious: http://www.life123.com/holidays/halloween/witches/signs-of-being-a-witch.shtml
A fact from Wiki that's right out of an old western: "Benches in U.S. federal courtrooms and some state courtrooms are usually bullet-resistant to protect judges from courtroom shootouts."
According to new figures released by the American Bar Association, "The average education debt for law grads at private schools last year was nearly $125,000, while the average for grads of public law schools was more than $75,700." It also states that "The law school with the least student debt was Georgia State University, with average debt of $19,971."
This article is interesting for skimming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Is America's leading percentage of incarcerated citizens a signal of a failing justice system, or simply a downturn in the general goodness of our people? And if the latter, what is the cause? Poor education? Dependence on addictive medication? Drugs? The economic crisis? It's probably a combination of these.
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