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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club)
Newsgroups: net.women,can.politics
Subject: Re: paying plumbers
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 10:57:08 EDT
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Summary: 

>> > Not at all necessary; what is necessary is that the decision be made
>> > people/persons who can make such a determination independently and
>> > without prejudice. Also it is possible that  people == state can be
>> > true you know.
>> 
>> You show me one, just one, person that can make such a determination
>> "independently and without prejudice".  Such people simply do not
>> exist.  Any program whose correct functioning depends on their
>
> Instead of just one how about an example of many?  Our justice system
> depends *exactly* on being able to find people who can decide,
> independently and without prejudice, a situation when presented
> with the facts.  These people are called juries.

Not true.  Juries and judges are the closet approximation to such a 
group of people that we have been able to find so far.  They are 
human beings just like you and I, and are hence subject to their own
prejudices and biases.  It so happens that we have yet to find a different
kind of institution that can effectively serve the same function as does
our legal system, so we put up with it.  As I said before, when, in different
situations, other alternatives are available, these should be carefully 
considered.

>> >John Chapman
>> 
>> 	-bob atkinson
>
> John Chapman

	-bob atkinson