But the people that regard jury nullification as necessary are ignoring the fact that it facilitates despotism of a majority against a minority, because it voids juridical safeguards. Jury nullification enables mob rule, it considers current moods more important than justice.
The fact that it might be abused is a necessary evil. It's one of the last ways that the people can stop their government from abusing people. Again, I'd rather some criminals get away that take away jury nullification.
There are people who would argue that jury nullification itself is a problem, as it disturbs a fair justice.
Then those people probably don't understand that freedom is more important than safety from alleged criminals. Jury nullification is basically a final check on government abuse, regardless of how inconsistent it may be. Sadly, most people in juries in the US don't really know about it.
Everyone should be distrustful of the government. Otherwise, it is difficult to maintain your freedoms. This is a healthy attitude for any free country. It doesn't mean you should blindly distrust everything, but be cautious of what powers they want and see how they could be abused.
Something the US will never stop doing any more than they will stop body searches on domestic/foreign flights.
How do you know it will never stop doing this? Plenty of other, more severe issues were fixed in the past, so I think it's at least possible that we'll be able to eliminate disgusting organizations such as the TSA and their ilk eventually.
in much the same way as it theoretically does Terrorism.
Nope. That shit is just an excuse for unjust preemptive warfare that wastes trillions of taxdollars, and you seem to have bought into it.
But hey, let's go to the middle east for the 150th time. I'm sure this time we'll be able to fix all their problems, and since we're the world police, we have enough moral authority to do that. A terrorist might, maybe, attack us at some unspecified point in the future, after all! A perfectly valid reason for war!
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But the people that regard jury nullification as necessary are ignoring the fact that it facilitates despotism of a majority against a minority, because it voids juridical safeguards. Jury nullification enables mob rule, it considers current moods more important than justice.
The fact that it might be abused is a necessary evil. It's one of the last ways that the people can stop their government from abusing people. Again, I'd rather some criminals get away that take away jury nullification.
There are people who would argue that jury nullification itself is a problem, as it disturbs a fair justice.
Then those people probably don't understand that freedom is more important than safety from alleged criminals. Jury nullification is basically a final check on government abuse, regardless of how inconsistent it may be. Sadly, most people in juries in the US don't really know about it.
And people losing trust in police IS a problem.
Everyone should be distrustful of the government. Otherwise, it is difficult to maintain your freedoms. This is a healthy attitude for any free country. It doesn't mean you should blindly distrust everything, but be cautious of what powers they want and see how they could be abused.
Something the US will never stop doing any more than they will stop body searches on domestic/foreign flights.
How do you know it will never stop doing this? Plenty of other, more severe issues were fixed in the past, so I think it's at least possible that we'll be able to eliminate disgusting organizations such as the TSA and their ilk eventually.
in much the same way as it theoretically does Terrorism.
Nope. That shit is just an excuse for unjust preemptive warfare that wastes trillions of taxdollars, and you seem to have bought into it.
But hey, let's go to the middle east for the 150th time. I'm sure this time we'll be able to fix all their problems, and since we're the world police, we have enough moral authority to do that. A terrorist might, maybe, attack us at some unspecified point in the future, after all! A perfectly valid reason for war!