Morgans wrote:
"kontiki" wrote in message
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Morgans wrote:

What does economic education have to do with leaning about a hopelessly
screwed up justice system have to do with the price of beans in China?
If you have to ask that question then you are one of the victims.

Educate me, then.

The question is what relevance economic education has to a broken justice
system.

I really find it fascinating that you don't see any connection or
think that they are linked.

A few years back my name came up for jury duty. I showed up at
the courthouse in the morning as ordered. Eventually I was placed
in a group that would be culled out for a trial involving a
lawsuit against a contractor. The group of us sat there and
answered questions from both attorneys regarding what we did
for a living, what our level of education was and a few others.

I can tell you that anyone involved at any level in any engineering
field was curt from the jury (I was one of those). After that
anyone in construction or who owned a business was cut. What was
left were a a couple of school teachers and house wives.

It was clear that the attorneys wanted no independent thinkers
in that jury. They wanted a group of people with little ability
to understand what the hell they were talking about so they
could appeal to the emotions of jury and not have deal with
any education or judgments based upon direct experience.

I've said enough about all of this. As I stated if you don't
see how all of this is connected today, in 2007 then there really
is no hope.