>This sort of adversarial judicial system is akin to Democracy, in that it's the worst system of its type, except for every other system we've tried. Except th

>This sort of adversarial judicial system is akin to Democracy, in that it's the worst system of its type, except for every other system we've tried. Except that's not really true. Democracies are split between highly adversarial common law systems, and civil law systems where judges take a stronger role in the process. People living under civil law, with less adversarial systems and more inquisitorial judges, don't seem notably more or less happy with their justice systems than those with adversarial systems.