Well unfortunately the court of public opinion is pushing actual legal systems in directions that I think a lot of people are unhappy with too. I think it's the

Well unfortunately the court of public opinion is pushing actual legal systems in directions that I think a lot of people are unhappy with too. I think it's the court of public opinion that we need to fix because of the impact it has elsewhere. I'm not generally a fan of Jeremy Clarkson's politics, but I think he makes a good point that we often think many of the people around us in public are morons but that being judged by a jury of those morons is a good idea, as opposed to being judged by the mature, experienced and very well-educated judge. Now obviously I'm not against juries and I'm not for authoritarian centralized judicial systems, but generally both conservatives and liberals seem increasingly willingly to trash people's reputations or call for harsh punishments because of an accusation and they only care for a methodical process of reviewing evidence and testimony and maintaining innocence until proof of guilt if they like the person. I mean police shootings are another issue like this - listen to the public discourse and virtually everyone has made up their mind about what should happen before any video is releases, and when video is released everyone sticks to the decision they already made before seeing it. Maybe we never had it, but most people seem to have lost the ability to withhold mental judgment until seeing it, and instead of people who think some shootings were understandable and others were abuses of authority, you have a lot of people who think they're virtually all one or the other.