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Comment Re:UK USA (Score 1) 111

In other countries, judges must have a law background and are usually experience, well respected lawyers who have practiced for many years. This is to give the judge a healthy respect for how the courts work both in theory and practice.

The purpose of the courts is not to blindly apply law; it is to provide justice. There is a difference.

If you just want someone to read from a book and apply its teachings, you want a preacher or a priest, not a judge. Justice is all about interpretation and discretion.

As Cicero wrote:

True law is right reason in agreement with nature... The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong... The more laws, the less justice.

Comment Re:Puts the concept of "natives" into question. (Score 2) 109

They get special treatment and financial support because they were, quite recently, the victims of terrible human rights violations; and in some cases, still are. Those violations have a trickle-down effect. The current generation, even if not victimized directly, is still disadvantaged by their ancestry.

Further, on the one hand, you suggest that our standards of decency are wrong-minded (that we should not provide support to these people) but on the other subtly judge their ancestors by those same standards.

Perhaps you just want to have your cake and eat it too, as long as the pigmented people don't have a slice.

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