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>>Your faith in the judges is bigger than mine, I guess.
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>Faith in judges or justice in general? Well this always a difficult topic and normal people tend to look from a very fixed angle. For example whenever on TBS convicted escapes and kills someone while on the run (Last june or so), or when big mistakes happen in a trail (e.g Puttense moordzaak, KeesB, Paskamermoord) everyone falls over justice. In a sense I think that is correct. Justice should learn from their mistakes. OTOH, in some cases we really talk about incidents (appearantly) wrong judgements (TBS cases). We are really quick to have an opinion on this, without having the faintest clue of what that means in practise. Someone convicted to TBS on early age should have a chance to prove he can return to society at some point or else you have to hold all of them for the rest of their lives. That in itself is inhuman. People with psychological problems often can return to society after treatment. Not giving them a chance to prove they can be part of society is a crime in itself. That
>is why TBS clinics do exist.
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>I'm not going to say that I'm an expert in this field, but I have some software running at some jails and TBS clinics and learned a lot esspecially from the TBS clinic.
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>Justice is like most jobs a human job. Humans make mistakes. We accept a programmer making mistakes, We accept the carpenter to make mistakes, etc. However from some jobs we don't. We don't accept surgeons to make mistakes and we don't accept justice to make mistakes, just because the consequenses can be so dramatic. But we have face reality, that we all make mistakes. That is human nature.

My faith in judges is quite low, because I think that many of them (okay, some of them) are not intelligent enough for the job. But how can I prove this? There is no public list of their EQ/IQ-scores. And what score is high enough according to me? And which factors are important here? Empathy, analitical? Judges are always alpha-scientists. How would a beta-scientist score in court? It is probably too difficult to discuss here. Others can easilly say the opposite of what I say and in the end we would probably have to agree to disagree.