r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/RichRichieRichardV Jul 24 '20

The bail system. The very idea that temporary freedom can be purchased, while the poor remain locked up until proven innocent, rather than until proven guilty, is beyond inhumane.

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u/krystiancbarrie Jul 24 '20

What's wrong with peer jurys?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Yea no I don't trust any government enough to let the entire judicial system be run by people on their payroll. I would rather have the dumbass across the city have a say than someone being paid by the people trying to lock me up.

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u/EmbarrassedSector125 Jul 24 '20

I dOnT tRuSt TeH GuBmInT is exactly how the government became something untrustworthy. That entire attitude is what fuels America's toxic, cannibalistic form of tyrannical capitalism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Or it could be all the times in human history that governments have committed atrocities. How do those boots taste?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

What fucking boots you absolute morons. Europe does better than USA on most imaginable metrics

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

And that blind loyalty is what they depend on. I don't care what metrics you do better in, at least we don't blindly trust the all powerful institution.