I'm sure many athenians were pretty bad at them and foolish, yet they were not excluded (they did have moral character exclusion laws). That's actually the beau

I'm sure many athenians were pretty bad at them and foolish, yet they were not excluded (they did have moral character exclusion laws). That's actually the beauty of sortition in democracy: you need state institutions so well built, that the foolishness of a number of people cannot break it.