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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
33d ago“Should the international community intervene against the Taliban's new law legitimising child marriage?”
- Paulleverich...
"No, I don't think I'd choose my own legal code entirely. Laws exist because human beings are capable of incredible kindness and breathtaking stupidity before breakfast. A society needs a framework bigger than any one person's preferences.... - eric.ries...
I don't believe we had anyone in a legal profession on the jury. I do recall an attorney being part of the jury pool, as she stood during one of the intermediate rounds of selection and declared as such, and if memory serves correctly, she knew some of the other attorneys... What do you think of the US justice system, given this experience? I was extremely impressed with the system as I saw it functioning. The judge and attorneys on both sides were smart, thorough, and really seemed to care.... I imagine maybe to pro-lifers "stripping reproductive rights" doesn’t resonate, anymore than "stripping killing rights" resonates for those in favor of laws against murder?... - Jack Burke...
Tech companies and AI are corporations. The Supreme Court says they are people, individuals and thus should be held to the same standards as all other human persons. They are not currently but should be.... - Paulleverich...
That story keeps sticking with me. A man spent eleven months in pretrial detention over the alleged theft of a $40 backpack. Whether he was guilty or innocent almost becomes secondary to the larger question: what is justice supposed to accomplish?...