Re:A Walk in Hong Kong
by rhinovshippo on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:29AM
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True freedom exists at the personal, inner level, each individual must earn it for themselves. How little Americans personally value the kind of external (political) freedom which they talk up as the absolute good and sacred can be observed in the 10% ish turn out rates in cities like NY and SF, as well as in how everyone tries to get out of jury duty as much as they can.
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> everyone tries to get out of jury duty as much as they can.
Perhaps it's the fact that I live in a smaller city, but literally no one I know had tried to get out off jury duty, except one friends in the last months of her pregnancy when she had preeclampsia and was ordered by the doctor to rest (so a legitimate reason).
One advantage of this is I get to hear all kinds of great stories about various cases (including a murder, in one case).