>>Hi peter,

>>>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.
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>>hmmm sound like discrimination??
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>Huh? So, every negative opinion is discrimination? I think, the first person to oppose that idea is Walter Meester. :)

LOL, yes you're right, I appearantly forgot to enter the smily :)

>>>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.
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>>I do not have any practical experiences with judges, so I really could not say much about your opinion.
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>Like you, I too am a very civilized person who has not ever been in court. The exception is a traffic fine that I didn't agree with. THAT judge was a morron, I tell you.

>Do you know that in the U.S. 715 out of 100,000 people are in jail? In the Netherlands 123 people only. (Source: Charles Groenhuijsen) Is this proof that on average U.S. citizens are more evil people than we are? <g>

It of course is very difficult to analyze this from a number only, but i've read somewhere that the US do have a serious problem here. We can speculate on a lot of things like the huge gap between rich and poor, the enourmous poverty in some areas and amongst some ethnical groups, the right to carry a gun, The ease to buy a gun, but it all remains speculation.

Walter,