Comments on: the one man who welcomes jury duty

By: go vote! (or not) » digital guerrilla

go vote! (or not) » digital guerrilla — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:15:20 +0000

[...] am all about voting and doing your civic duty (I’m the one guy you know that actually wants to be on a jury after all), but I’m not going to tell you to vote tomorrow. Sure, if you know who you want to [...]

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:54:57 +0000

I also agree. I enjoied my one day of jury duty, the only painful part of it being that if I had gotten selected for a long case it would have interfeared with my school. I look forward to when I work and can be more comfortable with missing days due to jury duty. I do like being a part of the system. If I was ever on the bad end of it, I would like to know that my peers would take my case seriously and make sure that justice is done.

And hey, you get a whole 15 bucks! That ain’t bad for a day of reading books.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:02:40 +0000

The day after, when I went back to work, I expected that maybe someone would say something positive, but all the comments I got were something to the effect of “too bad you had to do that”.

People complain so much about the state of the country and then whine when it’s time to carry out their civic duty.

And yes, I should have stuck “inherently” in that sentence to make the meaning clear.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:37:40 +0000

I agree with you on this one too. It’s a little bit of a hassle being a student, and not getting paid for the day “off,” but well worth it.

And when you refer to a system that can be corrupted, I assume it is in contrast to a system that is INHERENTLY corrupt.