Jack comments on Amanda Knox: post mortem - Less Wrong

23 Post author: gwern 20 October 2011 04:10PM

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Comment author: Jack 21 October 2011 03:37:58AM *  0 points [-]

They've all been lawyers, it's just not an official requirement.

Comment author: pedanterrific 21 October 2011 03:41:15AM 0 points [-]

Presumably for the same reason there's technically no official requirement that they be human, either.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 October 2011 05:42:49AM *  4 points [-]

That is, those with the power to appoint such judges would look like tools if they voted in non-lawyers or non-humans so they will not do either.

(It occurs to me there is a mutual exclusion joke in there somewhere.)