Merely making a comment on the current social situation, good people are treated badly and bad people are exalted.
Particularly, in our jury system today, if you exhibit one iota of common sense, you are disqualified by voir doire. But if, to coin a phrase, you are a low-information voter, then the $25 a day looks like free money. Just a case of bad driving out good. My expert testimony has been commended in open court by a Federal judge for making a difficult subject clear... Lawyers are impressed. And I've been tossed out of jury selection numerous time in both State and Federal courts. I've looked at my fellow jurors in waiting and wondered just exactly what in hell was I doing there. Of course I've never been sat. So now I don't look down on those who avoid jury duty, they are my peers, not the jurors.
Excellent comment.
Let me comment on this part of your post: “Now I don’t look down on those who avoid jury duty, they are my peers, not the jurors. “
I think those that avoid—as opposed to those that are stricken from—jury duty are being less than civic-minded and not my peers. Those that mock those not “smart enough” to avoid jury duty most assuredly are not my peers.
In my view, while we that pay attention will likely be stricken from the jury pool, it is a failure of the system and we should make the system disqualify us and not make it easy for the dolts of the world.
Just my view. Cheers.