why why why why why why me?

[Sava]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Here you have a shot at significantly influencing the life of another human being -- one way or the other -- and you're just going to pass it up for video games?

yes

sorry, I'm not a power hungry freak, I don't care about how much influence I can wield over people

[The Mad Monk]

What a sorry excuse.

It has nothing to do with wielding power over people, it's about doing your part to insure the system works the way you think it should.

If you can't be bothered to contribute even this tiny service, you have no right to complain when things go wrong.

[Frankychan]

Lol, if you look like you wanna get out of jury duty and go to some lengths to try and get out, they may put you in contempt. Probably fine your a**.

That's what some of the judges here do.

As well they should.

[Az]

The Mad Monk is perfectly right - you have the power to good, without any risk, but you'd rather scratch your balls at home?

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Az
The Mad Monk is perfectly right - you have the power to good, without any risk, but you'd rather scratch your balls at home?

What he said.

[Flubber]

In Canada, jury duty is much rarer since we lamost never have juries for civil trials and they don't exist for lower level crimes either (stuff equivalent to what you folks call misdemeanors). Even for the serious stuff, defendents can elsect to be tried by judge alone. So I have never received any jury notice nor do I personally know anyone that has.

I actually think it would be fun to go to jury selection-- It would also be dead easy to get out of being selected. All you need to do is state your belief that

a) all defendents are guilty OR
b) the police usually frame people

elect one based on your ideology.

That said , I wouldn't mind being on a jury sometime. Its part of a process I like to believe in. The thing is that I have heard that most lawyers hate the idea of a lawyer on a jury

[Sava]

you guys can shove your self-righteous bull**** up your ass

our justice system is a ****ing joke and I refuse to participate in it

the very fact I am obligated to do this is reason enough to hate it

absolutely I'd rather scratch my balls at home

[Kuciwalker]

you can shove your own self-righteous bull**** up your ass

[Ming]

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHILL OR BE CHILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ming]

I'm going to assume the last two posts were cross posts... so I deleted them... anything after this will earn a restriction.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Ming
I'm going to assume the last two posts were cross posts... so I deleted them... anything after this will earn a restriction.

what was wrong with my posts? I did not name names. I did not accuse anyone of anything.

Is it so wrong to say if you feel the system is broken, then do something about it?

I stand by that statement, if you feel the need to restrict me. Then do so. I will die a martyr.

[Az]

ugh, sorry Ming... But I don't think it was a personal attack. I didn't call him names or anything.

[Ming]

It's not what you guys said... it's HOW YOU SAID IT!

Continuing the flame war by quoting stuff prior to my warning and continuing the discussion is a fast way to get banned...

[Az]

Seriously, Ming, I know you've made up your mind this time, and changing your mind will show weakness, and will make you the prisoners' ***** in no time ( ), but for the future:

If a person opens a thread about himself, and one feels negatively about their actions/feelings, what's should that person do? That's the topic of the thread after all.

I think I've said all I wanted to say in this thread, I'll leave now.

[Sava]

Az, Dis: that's fine... I respect your opinion... I disagree with it.

The thing you guys have to understand is. I don't care about trying to improve things anymore. I care deeply about many things in this country (and world) that are ****ed up. But I've given up. I mean, it goes beyond just this jury duty thing.

some decisions I've made:
I am not going to participate in society in any way. IMO, society is ****ed up and humanity is not worthy of my effort in terms of trying to improve it. That's why I sit at home all day. In the short term, I've decided not to commit suicide. Particulary because my father's health is not so good and I don't want to upset him (or my mother). But nevertheless... I am going to commit suicide. Probably shortly after my father passes.

I'm going to isolate myself. Other than my immediate family, and a few other relatives; not many people care about me. And I want it that way. That way, when I'm gone, it won't hurt that many people.

I'm not going to have children. Sure, I'd like to. But I am not going to. IMO, it would be cruel to bring a child into this world.

Some people can be happy living in their own little world, working at some job, meeting someone, getting married, raising kids, creating a family... even going to something like jury duty, pretending like they are making a difference.

But they're not.

Hell, if 40 million plus Democrats are powerless to force even minimal positive change in this country, what hope do I have?

And I'm not going to waste my time stuck in some sort of dillusional mindset (also known as 'hope') with the notion that I can affect some sort of change.

Lots and lots of people smarter than me and with more resources than me, have been unable to force change.

I hate this world. I'm going to leave it. And I hope all record of my existence slowly fades into oblivion.

I don't want to be associated with humanity.

I want an asteroid to kill us so we can't **** up the rest of the universe.