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I'm In a Job That Contradicts Libertarianism

Submitted by Jhorne10 on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 09:21
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It's called Social Work. I was working in Social Work before I saw the light and then Dr. Ron Paul came to my campus. Hard not to change after that! However, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place with this scenario. Anyone else in a career that contradicts liberty?

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Never heard of Casey Anthony

Submitted by dabooda on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 14:28.

but nothing that happens in a courtroom can be expected to be more rational or just than the individual people involved: the judge, lawyers and jurors. "Justice" can only be rendered by individual people, 'cause that's the only kind God made. (Or vice versus, for atheists like me.)

"A jury without a judge is a lynch mob." Sounds like something you heard in law school -- written by a judge who took himself too seriously. In that case where I was a potential juror, it looked to me like the judge was leading the lynch mob. And that's usually how it goes, hm? When the "laws" themselves are unjust, judges are perpetrators of injustice, legal lynchers.

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Are you not an American?

Submitted by BmoreBrawler on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 17:53.

How have you not heard of Casey Anthony? Trust me, its a lot more complicated than you're making it. And I'm generally pro-jury.

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Casey who?

Submitted by dabooda on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 19:40.

Nope, never heard of him. Truth. I don't watch TV. If he's not big news on the Daily Paul, he's not worth knowing about.

"Complicated" . . . is that better or worse than I think it is?

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Just different. Juries are

Submitted by BmoreBrawler on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 20:19.

Just different. Juries are not as just as you think but Judges probably a bit better. Mainly to due with the rules of evidence in keeping the jury from making unsound and biased conclusions, usually in favor of the government. The real corruption in the system comes from prosecutors and mandatory minimum sentences that give the Government unequal power far and beyond what they had already.

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