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The point is that this leads to corruption. A jury-of-peers reflects and represents wider society. A jury-of-some-selected-close-peers as you are suggesting wou
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
The point is that this leads to corruption. A jury-of-peers reflects and represents wider society. A jury-of-some-selected-close-peers as you are suggesting would not reflect the needs of wider society.
Other other hand the broadly selected jury won't be able to understand technical cases.
Its 6 one half-a-dozen the other. (UK English expression that means both ways have major flaws and neither is ideal.)
- ownagefool 11y agoScottish here. I'd say that saying actually means both are ultimatly the same, as in they might be difference but they're both equally negative. In this case, it would indeed be refering your assessment that both ways have major flaws and neither is ideal. But the point is, it has a wider meaning that could be invoked when comparing two good outcomes, for example.
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- ksenzee 11y agoSix of one, half a dozen of the other is also widely used in the US, to mean it doesn't really matter which one you pick because they're pretty much the same.
- nitrogen 11y agoCurrent juries aren't meeting the needs of society, either, so there's not much loss there. We also have the counterbalance of elected representatives, and in the US, sometimes judges are elected, too. Maybe it'd be enough for them to represent society, with juries in technical cases representing accurate justice for the case at hand.