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Subject: Re: Judicial Headache #2
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 13:26:36 EDT
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I must protest Mr. Bickford's conclusion that the American
judiciary demonstrates that people are basically bad.
Some people are basically bad, but the majority of people
are basically good.  What the judiciary does is provide a
vehicle by which the nasty ones can amplify their actions.
One rarely sees the good ones in court because they don't
have the stomach for it, but that doesn't mean such people
don't exist.  I can easily imagine the American judiciary
being well-used in a fictitious country populated solely
by good people.  My various experiences with courts and
lawyers have been 100% negative, but I have not been 
fooled into drawing a negative conclusion about the
citizens that do not go to court.